Topic: Retrieve the text string from the selected option in a select dropdown
Expected behavior
I want to retrieve the text string from the selected option of a select dropdown generated from an AJAX call. The options returned in the ajax call include an item name and quantity available in the text and a part number as the option value. I want to slice the quantity available from the text for use in a calculation. In the select options below, if I select the second dropdown item, I want to retrieve the text "Item Two - 7 available"
Resources (screenshots, code snippets etc.)
Item One - 2 available
Item Two - 7 available
Item Three - 12 available
Hi
Could you show your code in snippet editor?
Regards
AJEsler2019 pro premium priority commented 5 years ago
I managed to find the way to achieve this using the following (this was the important bit - find("option:selected").text() ) var fromButton = $('#consumeFrom').find("option:selected").text(); var startPos = fromButton.search("units available") + 16; var endPos = fromButton.length; var availableQty = fromButton.slice(startPos,endPos);
Tomasz Makowski commented 5 years ago
Happy you found out the solution. Regards.
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- User: Pro
- Premium support: Yes
- Technology: MDB jQuery
- MDB Version: 4.18.0
- Device: PC
- Browser: Chrome
- OS: Windows 10
- Provided sample code: No
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