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Find index of selected option
13 May 2009 - 3:10pm — DayjQuery code snippet to find the index of the option that has been selected from within a select element.
$('select').change(function() {
$('#output').text( $(this).children().index( $(this).children(':selected') ) );
}).trigger('change');
$('#output').text( $(this).children().index( $(this).children(':selected') ) );
}).trigger('change');
Use jQuery's index function to return the index of the item that matches the ':selected' selector within the children of the select element.
Example:
