Question

I have used get() to retrieve the first select drop down on the page like so:

styleSelect = jQuery('select').get(0);

And I can do normal things like

jQuery(styleSelect).remove();

To remove the select, but I’m having trouble finding the correct syntax to get the currently selected option’s text. I’ve tried:

jQuery(styleSelect, ':selected').text();

and several variations of this, I think I’m just missing something dumb here.

Answer 1

Use first the selector, then the context:

jQuery(':selected',styleSelect).text();

matchew’s suggestion will work too but only when you didn’t set the value-attributes of the <option>‘s
(If you set the value-attributes you will get the value of the selected option instead of the text)