Rey, To my knowledge, the latter is an XPath selector that says "get all options with an attribute of selected" (like <option selected="selected">), while the former is a dynamic pseudo-selector that will get the actual "physically" selected option value at run-time.
m. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rey Bango Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:26 AM To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: Re: [jQuery] Getting Selectbox selected value. Works in IE not FF. Matt, Whats the difference between this: $('#mySelect :selected').text(); and this: $('#mySelect [EMAIL PROTECTED]').text(); The latter was code that I grabbed from an earlier posting. Rey... Matt Grimm wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
