Option : selected parameter

Question

I'm new to Jquery I had found lot of ways for getting the selected text from dropdown. This is the one among those. $( option:selected  $( #TipoRecorde )).text(); There what we call the 1st parameter(option:selected) ? Is it a selector ?

Midhun T P · Answer

Hi The :selected selector selects option elements that are pre-selected in a drop-down list. Please check below links for more details - https://api.jquery.com/selected-selector/ http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/sel_input_selected.asp

Vinay Singh · Answer

Try: jQuery ( #availability option:selected ). val (); Or to get the text of the option use text() : jQuery ( #availability option:selected ). text (); More Info: http://api.jquery.com/val/ http://api.jquery.com/text/

Srikanth Reddy · Answer

Here the question is : what is the first parameter which I had provided ?

Manas Mohapatra · Answer

Try with below code: // To get Text $( #TipoRecorde option:selected ).text(); // To get value $( #TipoRecorde option:selected ).val(); Note : TipoRecorde is ID of dropdown.