Select Some one Demo By using val () WebTry with the below codes. The following HTML Markup consists of an HTML DropDownList (DropDown) control and a Button. We can select text or we can also find the position of a text in a drop down list using option:selected attribute or by using val () method in jQuery. Reset (Clear) DropDownList selection (selected value) using jQuery. autoBind is set to false ), the value method will pre-fetch the data before continuing with the value setting. Following is the function for JavaScript that will return the selected value or text from the dropdown list: