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

To get the value of a drop-down (select) element, just use val().

$('._someDropDown').live('change', function(e) {
  alert($(this).val());
});

If you want to the text of the selected option, using this:

$('._someDropDown').live('change', function(e) {
  alert($('[value=' + $(this).val() + ']', this).text());
});