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

Try this

on change event

$("#jodSel").on('change',function(){
    var getValue=$(this).val();
    alert(getValue);
  });

Note: In dropdownlist if you want to set id,text relation from your database then, set id as value in option tag, not by adding extra id attribute inside option its not standard paractise though i did both in my answer but i prefer example 1

HTML Markup

Example 1:
    <select id="example1">
        <option value="1">one</option>
        <option value="2">two</option>
        <option value="3">three</option>
        <option value="4">four</option>
    </select>
Example 2 :
    <select id="example2">
        <option id="1">one</option>
        <option id="2">two</option>
        <option id="3">three</option>
        <option id="4">four</option>
    </select>

Jquery:

$("#example1").on('change', function () {
    alert($(this).val());
});

$("#example2").on('change', function () {
    alert($(this).find('option:selected').attr('id'));
});

View Demo : For example 1 & 2

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Answer 2

Try the change event and selected selector

$('#jobSel').change(function(){
    var optId = $(this).find('option:selected').attr('id')
})

Answer 3

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

'<option nameid= "' + n.id + "' value="' + i + '">' + n.names + '</option>'

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

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

For Example:

<select id="jobSel" class="longcombo" onchange="GetNameId">
    <option nameid="32" value="1">test1</option>
    <option nameid="67" value="1">test2</option>
    <option nameid="45" value="1">test3</option>    
    </select>    

Jquery:

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

Answer 4

If you are trying to get the id, then please update your code like

  html += '<option id = "' + n.id + "' value="' + i + '">' + n.names + '</option>';

To retrieve id,

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

To retrieve Value

$('option:selected').val()

in Javascript

var e = document.getElementById("jobSel");
var job = e.options[e.selectedIndex].value;