Here. Example : jQuery Selector the code I try using jquery: $ ('#IDName Choose an option in the drop-down list and output the text of the selected option in an element with id="demo": var x = document.getElementById("mySelect"); var i = x.selectedIndex; document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x.options[i].text; The result could be: Banana Try it Yourself Example but what I try doesn't work, please help. . this is the current element. Here Mudassar Ahmed Khan has explained how to get index of selected option of HTML SELECT using jQuery