Question

I am trying to fetch data from currently selected option. I came out with this.
Could i somehow improve it or is this fine?

Im specially not sure about the current option selector.

<option data-id='one'></option>

....

$('select#first').change(function(){

var smth = $("option:selected",this).data('id');
alert(smth);


});

Answer 1

Looks like just this should work,,

    $('select#first').change(function() {
    var smth = $(this).find('option:selected').attr('data-id');
    alert(smth);
});​

   OR

$('select#first').change(function() {
    var smth = $(this).find('option:selected').data('id');
    alert(smth);
});​

Check this FIDDLE