onchange event handler not working properly

Question

I've created on onchange event handler using jQuery in SharePoint that is not working properly. After the page loads and the Request Type field is changed the other fields that are displayed will change on the fly based on the value selected from the drop-down menu.

This is the code that I am using that I can not for the life of me get to work and I even had a teacher who teaches jQuery look at it and she was not able to get it to work. Since I am very new to jQuery I am not too sure what I am doing wrong.

$(document).ready(function() {
    fieldload;

    $('select[title="Request Type"]').bind("change",function(){
    fieldload();
});

Answer 1

Correct code should be

$('select[title="Request Type"]').on('change', function() {
    alert(this.value); // or $(this).val()
});

Or if you directly want to get selected value use:

alert($(this).find(":selected").val());