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

Probably your best bet with this kind of scenario is to use jQuery's change method to find the currently selected value, like so:

$('#aioConceptName').change(function(){

   //get the selected val using jQuery's 'this' method and assign to a var
   var selectedVal = $(this).val();

   //perform the rest of your operations using aforementioned var

});

I prefer this method because you can then perform functions for each selected option in a given select field.

Hope that helps!