Check if selected dropdown value is empty using jQuery

Question

Here is the dropdown in question:

<select name="data" class="autotime" id="EventStartTimeMin">     <option value=""></option>     <option value="00">00</option>     <option value="10">10</option>     <option value="20">20</option>     <option value="30">30</option>     <option value="40">40</option>     <option value="50">50</option> </select> 

What I want to do is check if the current value is empty:

if ($("EventStartTimeMin").val() === "") {    // ... } 

But it does not work, even though the value is empty. Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

You forgot the # on the id selector:

if ($("#EventStartTimeMin").val() === "") {     // ... }