title: JQuery Mobile - Getting the Value of a SelectMenu
body: <p>When I attempt to get the value from my the select menu, I get an empty value. </p>
  
  <p>I know the reason I do is that the jquery mobile markup results in two items with a class of "mySelect"-- so the selector $(".selectMenu") is a wrapped set. </p>
  
  <p>I am wondering if there is a way to get the value through the plug in- something like $(".mySelect").selectmenu("value"), or something like that.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;section data-role="page"&gt;
  &lt;section data-role="content"&gt;
      &lt;input type="button" value="what is the value" id="myButton"/&gt;
      &lt;select class="mySelect"&gt;
          &lt;option value="1"&gt;one&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="2"&gt;two&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="3"&gt;three&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;/select&gt;
   &lt;/section&gt;
  &lt;/section&gt;
  
  $("#myButton").click(function(){
      var val = $(".mySelect").val();
      alert(val);
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/9HG9t/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/9HG9t/</a></p>