jQuery Get Selected Option From Dropdown

Question

Usually I use $("#id").val() to return the value of the selected option, but this time it doesn't work. The selected tag has the id aioConceptName

html code

<label>Name</label> <input type="text" name="name" /> <select id="aioConceptName">     <option>choose io</option>     <option>roma</option>     <option>totti</option> </select> 

Answer 1

For dropdown options you probably want something like this:

var conceptName = $('#aioConceptName').find(":selected").text(); 

The reason val() doesn't do the trick is because clicking an option doesn't change the value of the dropdown--it just adds the :selected property to the selected option which is a child of the dropdown.