Work with elm and select

This works with Ellie on Elm 0.19.0: https://ellie-app.com/58wGf2YsR9Ya1

Full code:

import Browser
import Html exposing (..)
import Html.Events exposing (on)
import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
import Json.Decode as Json
import String
import Html.Events.Extra exposing (targetValueIntParse)

main =
    Browser.sandbox { init = init, view = view, update = update }

init =
    { duration = 1 }

durationOption duration =
    option [ value (String.fromInt duration) ] [ text (String.fromInt duration) ]


view : Model -> Html Msg
view model =
    Html.div []
        [ h2 [] [ text "Month selector" ]
        , select [ on "change" (Json.map SetDuration targetValueIntParse) ]
            (List.map durationOption (List.range 1 12))
        , div [] [ text <| "Selected: " ++ (String.fromInt model.duration) ]
        ]


type Msg
    = SetDuration Int


type alias Model =
    { duration : Int }


update msg model =
    case msg of
        SetDuration val ->
            { model | duration = val }

UPDATE: onInput works, see another answer below with 0.19 working code: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41516493/540810

Yes, you will need to use on to handle the change event. If you look at the source for other event handlers built into Elm, like onClick, you'll see that they are all built using the on function.

Here's an example that is using targetValueIntParse from elm-community/html-extra for turning the string value from the option into an int.

Updated to Elm-0.18

import Html exposing (..)
import Html.Events exposing (on)
import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
import Json.Decode as Json
import String
import Html.Events.Extra exposing (targetValueIntParse)


main =
    beginnerProgram { model = { duration = 1 }, view = view, update = update }


durationOption duration =
    option [ value (toString duration) ] [ text (toString duration) ]


view : Model -> Html Msg
view model =
    Html.div []
        [ h2 [] [ text "Month selector" ]
        , select [ on "change" (Json.map SetDuration targetValueIntParse) ]
            (List.map durationOption (List.range 1 12))
        , div [] [ text <| "Selected: " ++ (toString model.duration) ]
        ]


type Msg
    = SetDuration Int


type alias Model =
    { duration : Int }


update msg model =
    case msg of
        SetDuration val ->
            { model | duration = val }

You can run this example in browser https://runelm.io/c/ahz

For future reference for Elm-newbies (like me): with Elm 0.18.0 + elm-lang/html 2.0.0, the onInput event (see code below) works. (Also notice the difference in int range notation (List.range 0 12 instead of [0..12]).

import Html exposing (..)
import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
import Html.Events exposing (onInput)


main =
  Html.beginnerProgram
    { model = model
    , view = view
    , update = update
    }



-- MODEL


type alias Model =
  { duration : Int
  }


model : Model
model =
  Model 0



-- UPDATE


type Msg
    = SetDuration String


update : Msg -> Model -> Model
update msg model =
  case msg of
    SetDuration s ->
      let result =
        String.toInt s
      in
        case result of
          Ok v ->
            { model | duration = v }

          Err message ->
            model


-- VIEW


view : Model -> Html Msg
view model =
  div []
    [ select [ onInput SetDuration ]
             (List.range 0 12 |> List.map intToOption)
    , div [] [ text <| "Selected: " ++ (toString model.duration) ]         
    ]


intToOption : Int -> Html Msg
intToOption v =
  option [ value (toString v) ] [ text (toString v) ]

Here is an update for Elm 0.19:

module Main exposing (main)

import Browser
import Html exposing (..)
import Html.Events exposing (on)
import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
import Json.Decode as Json
import String
import Html.Events.Extra exposing (targetValueIntParse)


main =
    Browser.sandbox { init = { duration = 1 }, view = view, update = update }


durationOption duration =
    option [ value (String.fromInt duration) ] [ text (String.fromInt duration) ]


view : Model -> Html Msg
view model =
    Html.div []
        [ h2 [] [ text "Month selector" ]
        , select [ on "change" (Json.map SetDuration targetValueIntParse) ]
            (List.map durationOption (List.range 1 12))
        , div [] [ text <| "Selected: " ++ (String.fromInt model.duration) ]
        ]


type Msg
    = SetDuration Int


type alias Model =
    { duration : Int }


update msg model =
    case msg of
        SetDuration val ->
            { model | duration = val }