jQuery Get Selected Option From Dropdown

Question

Usually I use $(\"#id\").val() to return the value of the selected option, but this time it doesn\'t work. The selected tag has the id aioConceptName

Answer 1

Set the values for each of the options

    choose io
    roma
    totti

$('#aioConceptName').val() didn't work because .val() returns the value attribute. To have it work properly, the value attributes must be set on each .

Now you can call $('#aioConceptName').val() instead of all this :selected voodoo being suggested by others.