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

Have you considered using plain old javascript?

var box = document.getElementById('aioConceptName');

conceptName = box.options[box.selectedIndex].text;

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