Question

Ok, first off this isn’t to find a value of a select boxes selected option. But its along the lines there of. I have a function I am working on that will check to see if the value selected matches that of the one being compared to from somewhere else, where if the match is found it does one thing if not it does another. However. Due to a recent requirement. The original function breaks cause there is not the probability that the select wont even be touched prior to the need of function.

So Im trying to tell if theres anyway to check to see if the select in question has had anything chosen or not prior to it doing anything else. I’m thinking of the concept of checking for an empty array with length, but I’m not looking to see if the select is empty or not. I need to know if there is a selected value or not so I can act accordingly with that. Hope this makes sense.

Answer 1

I’m totally not sure if I get you right, but wouldn’t this be enough:

if( $('option:selected').length ) {
    // at least one option element was selected
}