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Blair

On 11/28/06, Clodelio Delfino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thank you Blair, i made some changes on <option> to have <option
value="choiceX">...it's working now(FF/IE).

Btw, before...in firefox it's working without the need for
"value"...whereas in IE6, it doesn't.

Cheers,
cdelfino

Blair McKenzie wrote:
> Some browsers return value="" when the options themselves don't have
> value attributes. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure $(this).val() won't
> solve the problem. You can however do something like this:
> var selitem = this.value || this.options[this.selectedIndex].text;
>
> I.e. set selitem to value if it exists or to the the text of the
> selected option if it doesn't
>
> Blair
>
> On 11/28/06, * Clodelio Delfino* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     Need help in displaying the selected value on a select in a
>     form....below is the code which return nothing/empty.
>
>     $("#frmLookup select").change(function() {
>         var selitem = this.value
>
>         alert(selitem)
>     })
>
>     form:
>     <form id="frmLookup">
>     <select>
>     <option>choice1</option>
>     <option>choice2</option>
>     <option>choice3</option>
>     </select>
>     </form>
>
>     Thanks in advance...Cheers,
>     cdelfino
>
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