Another small jQuery post about getting the selected item from a dropdown in SharePoint. This time we are looking at the famous dropdowns in SharePoint. I already posted an article on how to hide dropdown values here.
Get the selected item from a dropdown
var sText = $("select[title='field name'] option:selected").text();
When you are working with a choice field, both .text() and .val() will get you the text of the option.
When you are working with a lookup field, .text() will get you the text in the option and .val() will get you the ID of the item.