When using a multi select (i.e. <select multiple=multiple>), you can easily grab all the currently selected options using $("#id option:selected").

However, it is hard to write a simple and universal handler as the get() could return an array OR just the single element. It would be much more intuitive and easier to handle if whenever a get() was called, you were returned an array, regardless of the number of elements returned. If the user is grabbing but one element, they could use the get(0).

Thoughts?

I have written a few simple wrappers to handle this by either using the $.merge function and an anonymous array or using the $.map function to only grab the values of the selected options. For example:

var items = $.merge( new Array(), $( "#id option:selected" ).get() );

or

var vals =

$.map(

$( "#id option:selected" ).get(),

function( i ) {

return i.value;

}

);