How to get $(this) selected option in jQuery?

Question

The following code works:

$(\"#select-id\").change(function(){
  var cur_value = $(\'#select-id option:selected\').text();
  . . .
});

How

Answer 1

Best and shortest way in my opinion for onchange events on the dropdown to get the selected option:

$('option:selected',this);

to get the value attribute:

$('option:selected',this).attr('value');

to get the shown part between the tags:

$('option:selected',this).text();

In your sample:

$("#select-id").change(function(){
  var cur_value = $('option:selected',this).text();
});