Selected Option Attributes to a variable

Question

I have a wordpress theme using autocomplete suggestion by getJSON,suggestion call into a drop down option like below

And the inspect view is below

I want save the ID and value of the selected option into a variable, How can i do it please help.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are using jquery then you can use attr()

Check the documentation http://api.jquery.com/attr/

try this code:

$('#element option:selected').attr('id');