Get the text of a Dropdown’s Selected Item Using jQuery

by Bill Beckelman 5. April 2010 08:03

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.

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