Using jQuery,how do you get the value of a form input?
How do you get the value depends on what type of input it is.
See related:
Select Box
Here is the HTML for the select box and the "show selection" link:
For a select box, you can use this to get the value:
$('#SelectBoxID').val();
and you can use this to get the text:
$('#SelectBoxID option:selected').text();
In this example, I pass the name of the id of the select box into the function and "alert" the result. You could easily change this to "return" the value or assign the value to a variable.