correct way to get selected option in jquery from an object

Question

hi. I've seen on StackOverflow and googling around that the most used way to get the selected text from a <SELECT> element with jquery is like this

$("#cboId :selected").text()

what I have is not the id, but an object. I have an object, say

var myCombo= $("#cboId");

coming from an earlier piece of code.

I've done like this to get the selected text, but is ugly:

  $("#" + myCombo.attr('id') + " :selected").text() ;

is there any cleaner way to do it?

thanks.

Answer 1

var selectedText = $(":selected",myCombo).text();