Get parent element where multiple child elements have same value in select input

Question

I have a multiselect list where values are grouped together by categories

    <select class="multiselect" multiple="multiple">
        <optgroup label="IsStudent">
            <option value="y">Yes</option>
            <option value="n">No</option>
        </optgroup>
        <optgroup label="IsOffer">
            <option value="y">Yes</option>
            <option value="n">No</option>
        </optgroup>
    </select>

I am using http://davidstutz.github.io/bootstrap-multiselect/. I am attempting to find the parent of the option element that I select. I do this by:

  onChange: function (element, checked) {
            if (checked == true) {
              alert($(element).filter(":selected").parent("optgroup").attr("label"));               
            }
        }

When any of my options are selected, it alerts "IsStudent" even if I select the option under "IsOffer". if I change the values to be unique, the alert alerts the correct parent.

Is it possible to detect the selected element regardless of whether my values are duplicate. I was hoping that it saw it as unique when the parent optgroup is different. I have tried

alert($(element).filter(":selected:last").parent("optgroup").attr("label")); 

Answer 1

try

$("select").find("option:selected").last().closest("optgroup").attr("label")

test on this fiddle.

if you want to accept this solution, consider to accept sudhar's solution instead, as he was the first to psot the main issue (he should add the last() method call, of course).

edit: the op actually wanted the most recently selected item reported. this one does the trick:

$("select").click( function(eve) {
    alert($(eve.target).closest("optgroup").attr("label"));
});

test on this fiddle

Answer 2

$("select").find("option:selected").closest("optgroup").attr("label")

Fiddle

Answer 3

Use is method to know that selected option is last or not:

alert($(element).filter(":selected").is(:last).parent("optgroup").attr("label"));