I always have to look this one up for some reason, so I thought I would put it here to make that easier: $("#Dropdown option:selected").text(); I initially found the answer on this Stackoverflow post.

One issue that I have had for a while that I think I finally solved was what to do with unauthorized jQuery Ajax requests in my ASP.NET MVC application. I finally wrote a custom authorization attribute to take care of the situation. I ran into two issues while constructing the attribute; the first ... [More]