Which option is selected in jQuery 1.2?

Question

Finding out the current value of a select-list with jQuery 1.4 is easy:

$('#selectList').val();

But whats about jQuery 1.2? I get an "undefinied".

I also tried

$('#selectList:selected').val();
$('#selectList option').val();
$('#selectList option:selected').val();

Nothing works but for this project i have to use jQuery 1.2

Answer 1

You should be able to do this using :selected and .attr():

$('#selectList :selected').attr('value');

Though, .val() should be working (since jQuery 1.0), is there possibly a plugin breaking it? (Or, is Prototype in the page?)

The above is just approaching it differently, it gets the selected <option> and gets its value="" attribute directly, if that doesn't work, something is very wrong.

Answer 2

Sorry .val() works in jQuery 1.2, too. my mistake

Answer 3

I'm not sure why val() isn't working for you, but you can get the element and use the plain DOM property, value:

$('#selectList')[0].value;

// or
$('#selectList').get(0).value;