Venkat's Planet

Here is the small JQuery code for getting the value of the dropdown box which is selected. HTML <select name="dropDownMenu"> <option>Option1</option> <option>Option1</option> <option>Option1</option> </select> JS $(document).ready(function(){ $("select").change(function(){ var str=""; str=$("select option:selected").text(); alert(str); }); });