Get current value selected in dropdown using jQuery

Question

I have a set of dynamically generated dropdown boxes on my page. basically I clone them using jQuery. now I want to capture the value selected on each dropdown on change eve

Answer 1

This is what you need :)

$('._someDropDown').live('change', function(e) {
    console.log(e.target.options[e.target.selectedIndex].text);
});

For new jQuery use on

$(document).on('change', '._someDropDown', function(e) {
    console.log(this.options[e.target.selectedIndex].text);
});