This is all that's needed: $('#mySelect').val()
If you wanted the text value of the selected option rather than it's value attribute, you could do: $('#mySelect :selected').text() m. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rey Bango Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:08 AM To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: [jQuery] Getting Selectbox selected value. Works in IE not FF. Guys, I'm tesing some code out to return the selected value of a dropdown. I found a snippet that was posted in a prior message but it seems to only work in IE and not in FF. FF returns null for the value. The code snippet is: $('#mySelect [EMAIL PROTECTED]').val(); You can see it here: http://www.intoajax.com/selecttest.htm Any ideas on how to fix this? Rey... _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/