Does anyone know of issues with jQuery selector in IE with html select boxes?

Question

I've got the following jQuery code for getting the first character of the string value of the selected option of an html select box.

var mode = $("#mode :selected").text()[0];

"mode" is the id of the html select element I want. This is not working in IE at the moment - does anyone know why that might be?

EDIT: Sorry everyone, it was nothing to do with jQuery. IE just wanted

var mode = $("#mode :selected").text().charAt(0);

I'm not sure why I thought the [0] would work in the first place. Thanks anyway.

Answer 1

maybe the problem is with not specifying the 'option'

we use this code in serveral of our projects and this does work in IE

$("#ComboBox option:selected").text()