title: How to retrive selected value from string of dropdown markup?
body: <p>I have a string in which i have markup of drop down.I recive the string of drop down markup from server side now i have to retrive selected value.
  for example i have this</p>
  
  <pre><code>var drop = " &lt;select&gt;&lt;option value=\"volvo\"&gt;Volvo&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value=\"saab\" selected&gt;Saab&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=\"mercedes\"&gt;Mercedes&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=\"audi\"&gt;Audi&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt; "; 
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  <p>the variable drop has the markup of dropdown and i want the value of selected text value. In this case the "Saab" is selected and i want the its value which is "saab". So how i can do this?</p>