Question

I’m having an issue in IE 8 where I’m trying to store a value from a form field select box using jQuery’s val(). The String shows up fine in all browsers except IE 7/8 where it shows up as null. I’m assuming it has to do with the characters (quotes?) in the field, but I’m not sure how to work around this. Code below:

var $size = $("#size");
var size = $size.find('option:selected').val(), 

The actual value of the selected field is:

L: 158.375" x 80.5" 4023mm x 2045mm

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Assuming that #size is the id of the select box, why are you using find('option:selected')? Whatever the currently selected option is will be the val() of the select element.

e.g. $('select#size').val(); should return the value of the selected option.