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Jquery get value of dropdown selected

var conceptName = $('#aioConceptName').find(":selected").text();

How check the selected value in dropdown?

How do you handle Select type of dropdown?
    - If it is <select> we would have to use Select class from Selenium.
    - Methods to select from dropdown:
    Select s = new Select(element);
        - s.selectByVisibleText
        - s.selectByValue
        - s.selectByIndex 
--> How do we verify which option is selected in a dropdown?
    - If we want to get the currently selected option, 
    we use getFirstSelectedOption() method.

selected dropdown value

Plain JavaScript:
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var e = document.getElementById("elementId");
var value = e.options[e.selectedIndex].value;
var text = e.options[e.selectedIndex].text;
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jQuery:
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$("#elementId :selected").text(); // The text content of the selected option
$("#elementId :selected").val(); // The value of the selected option