jQuery concatenate question...

Question

Ok.

html:

<div class="selector">
    <select name="something"> //this is what myVar is referring to.
        <option>stuff</option>
    </select>
</div>

Say I have var:

var myVar = $(".selector").find("[name=something]");

And I want to concatenate with option:selected:

$(myVar here + " option:selected").change(function(){
    //do something
});

I can't seem to make this work. Thanks to anyone who can help.

Answer 1

On your edited version you've removed val(), so myVar is a jQuery object. You can do:

myVar.find("option:selected")

or better

$("option:selected", myVar)

Answer 2

That should work (assuming the word 'here' isn't in the code). What does the the element with name = something contain as a value? what are the elements you expect to get using the jquery method?

Answer 3

Simply the selector method may not return you only one element, this may be better way to use jQuery.

 $("select").change(function () {

          $("select option:selected").each(function () {
                // do something
              });

        })
        .trigger('change');