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jQuery has two usage styles: 1  Via the $ function, which is a factory method for the jQuery object. These functions, often called commands, are chainable as they all return jQuery objects. 2  Via $.-prefixed functions. These are utility functions, which do not act upon the jQuery object directly.
You want to get the selected text and value from DropDownList control of ASP.Net using jQuery. Sidenote: Complete code is available at the bottom of the article. But I recommend you to read the article completely for better understanding. Every item in the drop down list has 2 parameters â Text and Value.t any point in time, only one item in the dropdown list can be selected. You want to get the selected value. As there could be multiple drop down lists in the same form, first we need to select the drop down list uniquely and get the value using the val function of jQuery.