Get selected value in datalist using jQuery

Question

Very simple and straight forward. I pre-populated a HTML datalist with values, on the form when I want select a value and insert it into SQLite database. This is my example

Answer 1

The easy way is to get the name of datalist using it's name attribute and then use val() function to see the value selected

$('[name="TypeList"]').val();

Check the working example https://jsfiddle.net/ch9uwvod/8/