How to catch the event of change of <select > with jQuery?

Question

<select id="target">
<option value="1">item1</option>
<option value="2">item2</option>
<option value="3">item3</option>
</select>

Say,I want to do some processing according to selected value.

Answer 1

$('#target').change( function() {
   $(this).find(":selected").each(function () {
            console.log( $(this).val() );
    });
 });

Answer 2

$("#target").change( function() {
    alert($("#target option:selected").val());
});

You may also need to consider this as well if the person does not change the option, but simply clicks on the drop down and selects the same item:

$("#target option").click( function() {
     alert($("#target option:selected").val());
});

Answer 3

$("#target").change( function() {
  var selectedOption = $("#target option:selected");
  var selectedValue = selectedOption.val();  // gets the selected value
  var selectedText = selectedOption.text();  // gets the selected text
});

Answer 4

The accepted answer is okay but do not catch changes done by keypress (arrow-keys or alphanum keys).

This is a better apporach:

$('#target').bind("change keyup",function() {
   $(this).find(":selected").each(function () {
     // do something amazing here
   });
});

Answer 5

You can get the selected value and text simply by:

$("#target").change(function() {
  var selectedValue = $(this).val(),
      selectedText = $('option:selected', this).text();
  // ...
});

Answer 6

Using arrow-function, it can be :

$('#target').change((e) =>{
        console.log(e.currentTarget.value);
        console.log(e.currentTarget.textContent);
 });

Replacing this by event.currentTarget .