jQuery Getting selected dropdown text

[cancer10]

Hi

I have 5 dropdowns on my webpage. What I want is when any of the options from any dropdowns are selected, i should be able to alert the text of it (not the value). I am trying the following code but it does not display any result.

$(document).ready(function(){

    $('select').change(function(){

         alert( $(this + '  option:selected' ).text() );

    });

});

Pls help

[devnull69]

Try this

alert( $(this).find('option:selected').text() );