Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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Getting the display value for a select element

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Sometimes you want to get the display value (what's shown on screen) for a select element. You can do it with jQuery like this:

$('select option:selected').text()
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ali_hanzala

$('select option:selected').val() for the selected value :)

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