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

For good practice you need to use val() to get value of selected options not text().

<label>Name</label>
<input type="text" name="name" />
<select id="aioConceptName">
    <option value="choose">choose io</option>
</select>

You can use

   $("#aioConceptName").find(':selected').val();

Or

   $("#aioConceptName :selected").val();

I wish that helps ..

Answer 2

You can select using exact selected option : Below will give innerText

$("select#aioConceptName > option:selected").text()

While below will give you value.

$("select#aioConceptName > option:selected").val()

Answer 3

For anyone who found out that best answer don't work.

Try to use:

  $( "#aioConceptName option:selected" ).attr("value");

Works for me in recent projects so it is worth to look on it.

Answer 4

You can try to debug it this way:

console.log($('#aioConceptName option:selected').val())

Answer 5

Using jQuery, just add a change event and get selected value or text within that handler.

If you need selected text, please use this code:

$("#aioConceptName").change(function () {
    alert($("#aioConceptName :selected").text())
});

Or if you need selected value, please use this code:

$("#aioConceptName").change(function () {
    alert($("#aioConceptName :selected").attr('value'))
});

Answer 6

If you want to grab the 'value' attribute instead of the text node, this will work for you:

var conceptName = $('#aioConceptName').find(":selected").attr('value');