How to Get the Value of Selected Option in a Select Box Using jQuery
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Use the jQuery
:selected
SelectorYou can use the jQuery
:selected
selector in combination with theval()
method to find the selected option value in a select box or dropdown list.Let's try out the following example to understand how it basically works:
If the value for an option is not defined specifically, the text content of the <option> element will be used as a value instead, as demonstrated in the following example:
Alternativley, you can use the jQuery
text()
method to get the text content of an element.Get Selected Options from Multiple Select Box
Similarly, you can retrieve the selected values from multiple select boxes with a little trick.
A multiple select box allows a user to select multiple options. Hold down the control key on Windows or command key on Mac to select multiple options. You can enable multiple section in a select box by adding the attribute
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to the<select>
tag. Here's an example: