Apologies. A couple of silly errors. 1) its dllViewSelector not
ddlViewSelector (I do cut and paste a lot to save such mistakes,
normally - honest). And (thanks James), there was a missing
underscore. Thanks for all the other contributions to this including
Michael Geary's sensible advice. It's the pressure of a deadline
making me a bit too hasty.
On Mar 31, 9:20 pm, Ricardo <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The quotes in the attr selector are not required, try:
> $('select[name=ddlViewSelector_'+idCurrent+'] option:selected').text
> ();
>
> On Mar 31, 2:47 pm, LinkGuru <i...@legalanalytics.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone help on this one? .........
>
> > The following statement is proven to work:
>
> > p_viewSelector=$("select[name='dllViewSelector_Search_0']
> > option:selected").text();
>
> > But now I need to adapt it so the Search_0 component is replaced by a
> > variable (because it isn't always going to be Search_0 at that point.
> > So I've got
>
> > curSelector="ddlViewSelector"+idCurrent;
> >
> > p_viewSelector=$("select[name='"+curSelector+"']
> > option:selected").text();// single quote just before the 1st + and
> > just after the 2nd +
> > //idCurrent might be Search_0, but
> > could be Search_<any integer>
>
> > (and also tried lots of other combinations e.g.
>
> >
> > curSelector="'ddlViewSelector'"+idCurrent;// dbl quote sing
> > quote ....sing quote dble quote
> >
> > p_viewSelector=$("select[name="+curSelector+"]
> > option:selected").text();
> > )
>
> > So, if anyone is expert with jquery variables, quotes, string
> > contenation etc. who can solve this one, it would be greatly
> > appreciated!
