[jQuery] Re: Problem getting selected value from drop-down

The val() method returns the selected option for the element:

$('[name=dllViewSelector]').val()

'selectedIndex' is a property of the <select> node. When you call $
('#dllViewSelector') (ignoring the fact that this selector is wrong)
you get a jQuery object with a reference to the element, not the
element itself. You can access it like in an array:
$("#dllViewSelector")[0].selectedIndex;

On Mar 31, 7:51 am, LinkGuru <i...@legalanalytics.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, Can anyone help with the following? With JQuery, I can't
> successfully grab the selected value from a drop-down. The alert just
> shows an empty message. At least it is not showing undefined (as it
> was for my other attempts - you can see what these were from the
> commented out code), but I would expect it to display one of the
> values One-way, Reciprocal or Other. Perhaps I have to do some
> conversion on the result. Your contributions to this post will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> In my HTML I have:
>
> <select name="dllViewSelector"
>                             onchange="showSelectedView(this, allViews, allSections,4,10)">
>
>             <option id="oneway_4" value="one" selected="selected">One-
> way</option>
>             <option id="recip_4" value="two">Reciprocal</option>
>             <option id="other_4" value="three">Other</option>
>                     </select>
> .
> .
> .
> <span id="Add_0" class="actionOptAdd"> <input type="button"
> name="btnOk_AddToProject_0" class="button-click-grey" value="Add to
> Project" /></span>
> .
> .
> .
> And in my JQuery I have ....
>
>                 $(".actionOptAdd").bind("click",
>                         function()
>                         {
>                                 p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector option:selected").text();
>                                 alert(p_viewSelector);
> // Also get blank message for:
> //                              p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector option:selected",this).text
> ();
> // (Also tried - getting undefined as a result)
> //                              p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector").selectedIndex;
> //                              p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector").attr("selectedIndex");