JQuery detect dropdown value is selected even if it's not changed

Question

Using JQuery or JavaScript, I want to detect when a user selects a value, even if they don\'t change the already selected value.

How can this be accomplished?

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Answer 1

Try this...

To get selected option's value...

$("body").click(function(event) {
    if(event.target.nodeName== "SELECT"){
                 selectedValue = event.target.value;
            }   
});

and then get the text from the value

var text = $("option").filter(function() {
      return $(this).attr("value") === selectedValue;
    }).first().text();