I am trying to get the content of a selected item in a combobox by using the following code

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alert($("select[name="+"this.name"+"] option:selected").text());

but nothing is being returned unless I give the name of the combobox instead of calling this.name, I might be having problems with the quotes.

this is not a duplicate of given topic. Something must change in stackoverflow. Sometimes experienced developers decides duplicates without reading question. — Güven Altuntaş, Jun 03 '16 at 13:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 03 '16 at 13:42

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Use $(this) to get the text of selected option of changed selectbox:

$(this).find("option:selected").text();

answered Jun 03 '16 at 13:42

Dhara Parmar

Oh God that worked thanks very much :) – Bruno Filgueiras Jun 03 '16 at 13:47
Dhara's answer is correct and your code is not working because your adding strings to strings in selector area "select[name="+"this.name"+"] option:selected" this code vill give you "select[name=this.name] option:selected" as string. But you are trying to add some dynamic content in it so it should be like "select[name='"+this.name+"'] option:selected" – Güven Altuntaş Jun 03 '16 at 13:48

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