title: jQuery combobox attach an on blur event
body: <p>I am referring the following url <a href="http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#combobox" rel="nofollow">http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#combobox</a>
  to render comboBoxes in my HTML page.
  I want to attach a blur event to  my comboBox so that when a user clicks on the comboBox and then moves to the next field I can trigger a validation message.
  On searching I found that there is only a select eventthat can be attached that gets triggered when you select a value from the comboBox.</p>
  
  <p>HTML CODE</p>
  
  <pre><code>  @Html.DropDownListFor(m =&gt; m.Reason, new SelectList(ViewBag.SelectReason, "Key", "Value"), "", new { id = "drop2", placeholder = "Select Reason" })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Jquery Code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  $("#drop2").blur(function () {
             // here goes your code
          alert("blur");
      });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there any way that I can trigger an onBlur event ?</p>