I am one of those old school dinosaur types that has been around since the great depression and to be perfectly honest with you I am very comfortable with JavaScript and do not revert to plug-ins such as jQuery when I can get the same job done with pure clean JavaScript, but when I am trying to capture values from select options lists I used to use
var varName= document.formNa me.selectName.o ptions[selectName.sele ctedIndex].value
I...