Trigger onChange for Semantic UI dropdown

Question

Simply put, I would like to be able to trigger the onChange function in the dropdown for semantic ui.

$(".ui.dropdown").dropdown({onChange:function(value,text){console.log("a");}});

See a fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/0mLLscoq/

I want to trigger the onchange without clicking the dropdown and closing it. Simply programmatically forcing a trigger.

Answer 1

I couldn't find any way to do it with the API, but one possible hack is to assign a data-value to each item and then manually trigger the click for that item:

//HTML
<div class="ui dropdown">
    <div class="text">Select</div>
    <i class="dropdown icon"></i>
    <div class="menu">
        <div class="item" data-value="Edit">Edit</div>
        <div class="item" data-value="Remove">Remove</div>
        <div class="item" data-value="Hide">Hide</div>
    </div>
</div>

//JS
$(".ui.dropdown").dropdown({onChange:function(value,text){console.log("a");}})
                 .find("[data-value='Hide']").trigger("click");

Example Fiddle

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Update (Mar 11th 2016):

As @Süha mentions in the comments there is a dropdown behavior that allows you to change the value:

// Will change value and update UI
$('.dropdown').dropdown('set selected', 'Hide');

// Will only change value
$('.dropdown').dropdown('set value', 'Hide');

But neither of these will trigger the onchange event.

Example Fiddle