You might wanna have a look at the Selectors tutorial, http://docs.jquery.com/DOM/Traversing/Selectors
Also this might help a bit: http://docs.jquery.com/How_jQuery_Works On 6/9/07, Guoliang Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I have below test html file and can not get it to display the selected value. Can someone please let me know what I missed? Thank you. Guoliang I'm using jquery 1.1.2 and IE 6 SP2 (6.0.2900.2180) <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http:// www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html debug="true"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <title>Test Page</title> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></ script> <script language="JavaScript"> function openGame(){ var option = $("games [EMAIL PROTECTED]"); alert(option.text()); } </script> </head> <body> Select one: <select name="games"> <option selected="true">games/test1.sgf</option> <option>games/test2.sgf</option> <option>games/test4.sgf</option> </select> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> openGame(); $("games").change(openGame); </script> </body> </html>