title: Jquery .serialize() not processing value of dropdown list?
body: <p>I think this should be a simple thing but for some reason all my form values are being serialized fine except for the selected value of the dropdown list, the form is below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form id="contactform"&gt;
      &lt;label for="name"&gt;Name&lt;/label&gt; 
      &lt;input type="text" id=name name=name placeholder="First and last name" tabindex="1" /&gt;
  
      &lt;label for="phonenumber"&gt;Phone Number&lt;/label&gt; 
      &lt;input type="text" id=phonenumber name=phonenumber placeholder="Please enter your phone number" tabindex="2" /&gt;
  
      &lt;label for="email"&gt;Email&lt;/label&gt; 
      &lt;input type="text" id=email name=email placeholder="example@domain.com" tabindex="3" /&gt;
  
      &lt;label for="dropdown"&gt;Please Confirm:&lt;/label&gt; 
          &lt;select&gt;
              &lt;option value="question" selected="selected"&gt;I have a question&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option value="attending"&gt;I am attending&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option value="not-attending"&gt;I am not attending&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;/select&gt;
  
  
      &lt;label for="comment"&gt;Your Message&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;textarea name="comment" id=comment name=comment placeholder="Enter something here, can't think" tabindex="5"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; 
  
      &lt;input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="6" value="Send Message"/&gt;
  
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and this is how I am serializing it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#contactform').submit(function() {
      var query = $(this).serialize();
  
      $.ajax({
          type: "POST",
          url: "send.php",
          data: query,
          success: function(data) { // rest of function
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and finally the bit of PHP I'm using to set the value as a variable is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$dropdown     = $_POST['dropdown'];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>AN example header is <code>name=sgrggr&amp;phonenumber=55555555555&amp;email=me%40me.com&amp;comment=quick+test</code> so I'm stuck as to why the dropdown value isn't being picked up.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help.</p>