Friday, June 29, 2012

Asp.net jQuery DropDown get Selected Text


In this post, we will see on how to get the Selected Text of an Asp.net DropDownList control.


To get the Selected Text of an Asp.net DropDownList control, use the following code.
$('#yourDropdown option:selected').text()


Here is a full example
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>DropDownList</title>
    <script type="text/javascript"
src="JavaScript/jquery-1.7.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript"
language="javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('#cmdGetSelection').click(function(event)
        {
            event.preventDefault();
            alert('Selected Text : ' + $('#drpCountry
            option:selected'
).text());
       });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="fromDropDownList" runat="server">
    <div>
        Country:
        <asp:DropDownList ID="drpCountry" runat="server">
            <asp:ListItem Value="USA">United States</asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem Value="UK">United Kingdom</asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList><br /><br />
       
        <asp:Button ID="cmdGetSelection"
runat="server"
Text="GetSelection" />
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

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