javascript - alert dropdown menu item on button click -

javascript - alert dropdown menu item on button click -

here simple code alert menu item. dont know why not alert on button click.

http://jsfiddle.net/karimkhan/xw7qx/1/

$( "#submit" ).click(function() { var test = document.getelementbyid("myddl"); alert(test); });

html:

class="lang-html prettyprint-override">header: <br /> <select id="myddl" name="myddl"> <option value="1">one</option> <option value="2">twooo</option> <option value="3">three</option> </select> <a class="btn btn-block btn-lg btn-success" id="submit" href="#fakelink"> submit </a>

you may seek (demo on jsfiddle):

$(function(){ $("#submit").click(function(e) { e.preventdefault(); var test = $("#myddl").val(); alert(test); }); });

don't mix jquery , vanilla javascript.

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