Jquery to get the id of selected value from dropdown

Question

I have a drop down list that fetches values from db as follows

$.get(\'/getJobs\', function (jobs) {
        seljobs = jobs;
        var i = 0;
        jobs.forE         


        

Answer 1

First set a custom attribute into your option for example nameid (you can set non-standardized attribute of an HTML element, it's allowed):

'' + n.names + ''

then you can easily get attribute value using jquery .attr() :

$('option:selected').attr("nameid")

For Example:

    test1
    test2
    test3    
        

Jquery:

function GetNameId(){
   alert($('#jobSel option:selected').attr("nameid"));
}