How do I get an item in my drop down menu? I know with .value I can get the value of the item selected, but what I need is the name of the selected item. For example, I have this drop down menu with contains two items: Class 1 and Class 2. The value of Class 1 is 50 and the value of Class 2 is 60. If I use DMT5.value (Class 1's value) I get 50, but what I need is the name itself which is "Class 1".
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I'm not sure if this is what you seek for. But here's a way to do it somehow:
assuming we have the following SELECT element with a class of "parent".jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $('.parent').children('option').each(function(index,item){ $(this).on('click',function(e){ e.preventDefault(); // This will return the text instead of its value console.log($(this).text()); }); …
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