How to select text of a dropdown list which id ends with some string in JQuery?

Question

I need to select the text of dropdown list in which id ends with string SelectId

if the id is a fixed one like fixedid, it can be achieved by

var val = $('#fixedid :selected').text();

But, in my case, I know only some end text of that id and that is SelectId

I have tried below code but it failed

$('[id$="SelectId"]').text()

How I can achieve this?

Possible duplicate of:-[Find an element by partial ID in jQuery?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18749188/find-an-element-by-partial-id-in-jquery) — Alive to die - Anant, Dec 15 '17 at 11:15
Possible duplicate of [Find an element by partial ID in jQuery?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18749188/find-an-element-by-partial-id-in-jquery) — Shiladitya, Dec 15 '17 at 11:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '17 at 11:09

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You need to get the selected option within it for getting text content of selected option.

$('[id$="SelectId"] :selected').text()
//-----------------^^^^^^^^^^^-------

answered Dec 15 '17 at 11:09

Pranav C Balan

Sean T · Answer 2 · 2017-12-15T11:12:06.393

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This should work to get the option.

$("select[id$='SelectId'] option:selected").text()

edited Dec 15 '17 at 11:12

answered Dec 15 '17 at 11:10

Sean T

Anybody care to tell me what it wrong with this approach when down voting? – Sean T Dec 15 '17 at 11:14

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