Question

I am learning JQuery.
I got s Select Tag with some options in a very simple form like this:
(The form was generated by the Server and the values in each Option was retrieved from the database.)

<select name="data[Site1][quotenumber]" id="data[Site1][quotenumber]"> 
<option name="editquote" value="[29,1]">1</option> 
<option name="editquote" value="[24,2]">2</option> 
</select>

To get the value from the option selected, I used this code:

var whatValue = $('#data\\[\\Site1\\]\\[quotenumber\\] :selected').val();
alert(whatValue);

Now that I can get the value from the Select Tag, but the returned value was like an array, i.e. [29,1].
What is the best way to get the two values in each option?
I mean to print them out like this way:
The first value is 29, and the second one is 1.

Please help if you could

Answer 1

This should work:

var whatValue = $('#data\\[\\Site1\\]\\[quotenumber\\] :selected').val();
alert(whatValue);

eval('var arr = ' + whatValue);
alert('The first value is: ' + arr[0]);
alert('The second value is: ' + arr[1]);