How to get the text of an option by passing value of option with JQuery? [duplicate]

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jQuery get select option text

I have a drop downlist as like:

<select id="systemMessageList" name="systemMessageList">
    <option value="-1">--- Choose One ---</option>  
    <option value="120">niempo</option>  
    <option value="119">quartero</option>  
    <option value="118">mileno</option>  
</select>

I want that: I will pass the value for example 119 and it will return the text quartero in JQuery?

Answer 1

For the text of the selected option, you need:

$('#systemMessageList option:selected').text();

For the value you can just use

$('#systemMessageList').val();

Edit: the other answers are probably what you want. I'm just showing you how to get the text and value of whichever option is selected.