How do I grab and send a dropdown's display text instead of value using jquery

Question

I am using this bit of jquery to put the value selected from my dropdown into a hidden text field. This works beautifully - got it from one of the folks on this forum!!!, but I

Answer 1

Use .text() instead of .val() on the selected option

$(this).find(":selected").text()

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