jQuery -- monitor "onchange" event for dropdownlist

Like this

http://jsfiddle.net/3L7Hm/

This code is working, but the div I am trying to show won't show.  Nothing happens when I call "show(  )":

<script type="text/javascript">


    $(document).ready(function () {
            
        var howmanybidstatusdropdowns = $('select[id*="ddlStatus"]').size();
        var currentcount = 0;
            
        //alert(howmanybidstatusdropdowns);
        
        $('select[id*="ddlStatus"]').change(function () {
            
            var countoffound = 0;
            
            $('select[id*="ddlStatus"] option:selected').each(function () {
            
                if ($(this).text() == "Denied") {
            
                    countoffound = countoffound + 1;
                    currentcount = countoffound;            
                }
            });

            if (countoffound == howmanybidstatusdropdowns) {
                alert(countoffound + ' were found');                
            }
        });

        if (currentcount == howmanybidstatusdropdowns) {
            alert(countoffound + ' were found');


            //THE ALERT FIRES, BUT THIS LINE OF CODE DOES NOTHING...
            $('div[id*="divNewBids"]').show();
        }


    });
                                  
</script>

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That code was wrong above.  The other alert was firing, not the one that I intended.


Here is the updated code:

<script type="text/javascript">


    $(document).ready(function () {

        var howmanybidstatusdropdowns = $('select[id*="ddlStatus"]').size();
        var currentcount = 0;

        //alert(howmanybidstatusdropdowns);

        $('select[id*="ddlStatus"]').change(function () {

            var countoffound = 0;

            $('select[id*="ddlStatus"] option:selected').each(function () {

                if ($(this).text() == "Denied") {

                    countoffound = countoffound + 1;
                    currentcount = countoffound;
                }
            });


            if (currentcount == howmanybidstatusdropdowns) {
              
              //THIS ALERT STILL FIRES 
              alert(countoffound + ' were found');


            //THIS DOES NOTHING...
               $('div[id*="divNewBids"]').show();
            }

        });


        alert('outside');

    });

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@knowlton:  I am not a jQuery expert and don't really have time to research this, but I can see from just reading the question and the code example, that it is very incomplete.  So I would like to offer a suggestion that will help you get a better answer.  Follow the excellent guidance of the SSCCE.  With a valid SSCCE, we would see the HTML document as well as the jQuery statements, and it would be packaged into something we could copy, paste and run on our own servers.  If you frame a question with that little extra bit of detail you will get good answers very quickly.

You might also ask a moderator to add this question to the JavaScript and HTML Zones.  You can have up to five Zones for any question and I am sure some experts in those two additional Zones would be able to help.

Best of luck with it, ~Ray

not a jQuery expert either.

But looking at the code, I would think that
       $('div[id*="divNewBids"]').show();
would probably need something to handle the * which implies that the selection might have several items. So, without knowing too much about jQuery I would first test
       $('div[id*="divNewBids"]').each.show();
or
       $('div[id*="divNewBids"]').each(show());

Thanks everyone.