All right, say I have this:
This worked perfectly for me, I was looking for a way to send two different values with options generated by MySQL, and the following is generic and dynamic:
$(this).find("option:selected").text();
As mentioned in one of the comments. With this I was able to create a dynamic function that works with all my selection boxes that I want to get both values, the option value and the text.
Few days ago I noticed that when updating the jQuery from 1.6 to 1.9 of the site I used this code, this stop working... probably was a conflict with another piece of code... anyway, the solution was to remove option from the find() call:
$(this).find(":selected").text();
That was my solution... use it only if you have any problem after updating your jQuery.
I wanted a dynamic version for select multiple that would display what is selected to the right (wish I'd read on and seen $(this).find
... earlier):
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("select[showChoices]").each(function(){
$(this).after("<span id='spn"+$(this).attr('id')+"' style='border:1px solid black;width:100px;float:left;white-space:nowrap;'> </span>");
doShowSelected($(this).attr('id'));//shows initial selections
}).change(function(){
doShowSelected($(this).attr('id'));//as user makes new selections
});
});
function doShowSelected(inId){
var aryVals=$("#"+inId).val();
var selText="";
for(var i=0; i<aryVals.length; i++){
var o="#"+inId+" option[value='"+aryVals[i]+"']";
selText+=$(o).text()+"<br>";
}
$("#spn"+inId).html(selText);
}
</script>
<select style="float:left;" multiple="true" id="mySelect" name="mySelect" showChoices="true">
<option selected="selected" value=1>opt 1</option>
<option selected="selected" value=2>opt 2</option>
<option value=3>opt 3</option>
<option value=4>opt 4</option>
</select>
This is an old Question which has not been updated in some time the correct way to do this now would be to use
$("#action").on('change',function() {
alert($(this).find("option:selected").text()+' clicked!');
});
I hope this helps :-)
As an alternative solution, you can also use a context part of jQuery selector to find <option>
element(s) with value="2"
inside the dropdown list:
$("option[value='2']", "#list").text();
Try
[...list.options].find(o=> o.value=='2').text
let text = [...list.options].find(o=> o.value=='2').text;
console.log(text);
<select id='list'>
<option value='1'>Option A</option>
<option value='2'>Option B</option>
<option value='3'>Option C</option>
</select>
I needed this answer as I was dealing with a dynamically cast object, and the other methods here did not seem to work:
element.options[element.selectedIndex].text
This of course uses the DOM object instead of parsing its HTML with nodeValue, childNodes, etc.