jquery get label value from dropdown

Question

I know I can get the value using $("#dropdown").val()

does anybody know how i get the label?

Cheers

Answer 1

var text = $("#dropdown").find("option:selected").text();

which is the same as

var text = $("#dropdown option:selected").text();

Answer 2

All these answers fail to answer the question. He's talking about the label, not the text. Label is a valid attribute of the option (Specifies a shorter label for an option). See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_option.asp

To get the label use: $('#dropdown').find("option:selected").attr('label')

Answer 3

Use the :selected selector (to get the selected <option>) and get the .text(), for example:

$("#dropdown :selected").text()