One thing I see wrong there:
You are referencing dllViewSelector as an id in your jQuery, but you
only have that as a name in your html. either add the id attribute to
the select tag, or reference it as $("select[name='dllViewSelector']
option:selected") in your jQuery.
On Mar 31, 6:51 am, LinkGuru <i...@legalanalytics.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, Can anyone help with the following? With JQuery, I can't
> successfully grab the selected value from a drop-down. The alert just
> shows an empty message. At least it is not showing undefined (as it
> was for my other attempts - you can see what these were from the
> commented out code), but I would expect it to display one of the
> values One-way, Reciprocal or Other. Perhaps I have to do some
> conversion on the result. Your contributions to this post will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> In my HTML I have:
>
> <select name="dllViewSelector"
> onchange="showSelectedView(this, allViews,
> allSections,4,10)">
>
> <option id="oneway_4" value="one" selected="selected">One-
> way</option>
> <option id="recip_4" value="two">Reciprocal</option>
> <option id="other_4" value="three">Other</option>
> </select>
> .
> .
> .
> <span id="Add_0" class="actionOptAdd"> <input type="button"
> name="btnOk_AddToProject_0" class="button-click-grey" value="Add to
> Project" /></span>
> .
> .
> .
> And in my JQuery I have ....
>
> $(".actionOptAdd").bind("click",
> function()
> {
> p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector
> option:selected").text();
> alert(p_viewSelector);
> // Also get blank message for:
> // p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector
> option:selected",this).text
> ();
> // (Also tried - getting undefined as a result)
> //
> p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector").selectedIndex;
> //
> p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector").attr("selectedIndex");
