Get dropdown value selected using Jquery

Question

I have a drop-down which is auto-built by jQuery. It's running fine.

When the user selects a value from the drop-down I would like to know what the value is. Currently I'm using:

var employee= $('#emplist').find('option:selected').text();

but this seems to always return null.

Can someone tell me how to get the drop-down selected text to a variable.

My jQuery version is 1.4.1.

Answer 1

Just use .val() . Try below,

var employee= $('#emplist').val();

Answer 2

To get the currently selected text :

$('#emplist :selected').text();

Or value :

var value = $('#emplist').val()

Answer 3

You can do

var employee= $('#emplist').find('option:selected').val();

Or the better way

var employee= $('#emplist').val();

Answer 4

Try this

var employee= $('#emplist').val()

      OR

var employee= $('#emplist').find('option:selected').val();