Get selected text from a drop-down list (select box) using jQuery

Question

How can I get the selected text (not the selected value) from a drop-down list in jQuery?

Answer 1

The answers posted here, for example,

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

didn't work for me, but this did:

$('#yourdropdownid').find('option:selected').text();

It is possibly an older version of jQuery.