title: select value can not be accessible from aspx code behind
body: <p>I have to fetch the html select control value from the aspx code behind...I have done the following coding so far:</p>
  
  <p>The following code snippet is the jquery to populate the dropdown:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
          $(document).ready(function () {       // load jQuery 1.5
              function loadfail() {
                  alert("Error: Failed to read file!");
              }
  
              function parse(document) {
                  $(document).find("combo").each(function () {
                      var optionLabel = $(this).find('text').text();
                      var optionValue = $(this).find('value').text();
                      $('#combo1').append(
                     '&lt;option value="' + optionValue + '"&gt;' + optionLabel + '&lt;/option&gt;'
                      );
                  });
              }
  
              $.ajax({
                  url: 'dropdown.xml',    // name of file with our data
                  dataType: 'xml',    // type of file we will be reading
                  success: parse,     // name of function to call when done reading file
                  error: loadfail     // name of function to call when failed to read
              });
          });
  
      &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The following code snippet is the html select declaration:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="combo1" &gt;&lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anybody please help me how to get the selected value of the dropdown in aspx code behind.</p>
  
  <p>Regards,</p>