Brandon Aaron wrote:
>
> This has been a hot topic today. Try using the :selected selector
> instead of the attribute selector.
>
> $('#mySelect option:selected').text();
>
>
Ah. This is getting closer. Rather bizarrely, it returns the text for both
the original selection AND the new selection,
Eg "--B:Option 1"
But at least I can just chop off the first two characters - near enough is
good enough.
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