Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Getting dropdown value using JQuery

This is how my HTML looks 

Here is the HTML and JS

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title></title>
    <script src="jquery-2.1.4.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $("#selectedCountries").change(function () {

                var selectedOption = $("#selectedCountries option:selected");

                $(divResults).html('Value = ' + selectedOption.val() + ",Text = " + selectedOption.text());

            });

        });

    </script>

</head>

<body>

    Country : 

<select id="selectedCountries">
<option value="USA">United States</option>
<option value="India">India</option>
<option value="UK">United Kingdom</option>
<option value="CA">Canada</option>
<option value="AU">Australia</option>


</select>

<br/><br/>

<div id="divResults"> 


</div>

</body>

</html>


Results : If dropdown is selected, it will show its value and text as follows 








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