title: Get the value of select jquery
body: <pre><code>&lt;select id="my-select"&gt;
  &lt;option value="1"&gt;This is one&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="2" selected&gt;This is two&lt;/option&gt;
  ...
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to get the text value of the selected option?</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#my-select').val();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>gives me 2, i want to get This is Two instead.</p>
  
  <p>How?</p>