jQuery selector for select elements with empty value attributes?

Question

I\'m using the below selector to get all the form inputs that are pre-populated with a value.

$(\'input[value!=\"\"]\');

This works great a

Answer 1

$('select').has('option[selected="selected"]')

will get the select element. jsFiddle example.

Answer 2

For select you need to use a special selector made available by JQuery: :selected

So

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

is the current selected value.

If you need the do something on the select elements themself you could do something like:

$('#select option:selected').parents('select').dosomething(...)

Answer 3

value is not an attribute of select tag.

So you need to try:

var emptySelect = $('select').filter(function() {
                     return $.trim( $(this).val() ) == '';
                  });