title: How to get value of selected item from dropdown in jquery UI tabs content
body: <p>I am using jquery UI tabs and I have text filed and dropdown to select in tab's content, I am getting the value from text field but not from dropdown select item, can any one please help me, my project is in yii</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;jQuery UI Tabs - Vertical Tabs functionality&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css"&gt;
    &lt;script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="/resources/demos/style.css"&gt;
    &lt;script&gt;
    $(function() {
      $( "#tabs" ).tabs().addClass( "ui-tabs-vertical ui-helper-clearfix" );
      $( "#tabs li" ).removeClass( "ui-corner-top" ).addClass( "ui-corner-left" );
    });
    &lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;style&gt;
    .ui-tabs-vertical { width: 55em; }
    .ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav { padding: .2em .1em .2em .2em; float: left; width: 12em; }
    .ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav li { clear: left; width: 100%; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-right-width: 0 !important; margin: 0 -1px .2em 0; }
    .ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav li a { display:block; }
    .ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav li.ui-tabs-active { padding-bottom: 0; padding-right: .1em; border-right-width: 1px; }
    .ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-panel { padding: 1em; float: right; width: 40em;}
    &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
   &lt;?php echo $model-&gt;name;?&gt;
  &lt;div id="tabs"&gt;
    &lt;ul&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#tabs-1"&gt;Nunc tincidunt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#tabs-2"&gt;Basic Information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#tabs-3"&gt;Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#tabs-4"&gt;Set schedule&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;div id="tabs-1"&gt;
      &lt;h2&gt;Content heading 1&lt;/h2&gt;
      &lt;?php echo 'la la';?&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div id="tabs-2"&gt;
      &lt;h2&gt;Content heading 2&lt;/h2&gt;
  
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div id="tabs-3"&gt;
      &lt;div class="form"&gt;
  &lt;?php $form=$this-&gt;beginWidget('CActiveForm', array(
      'id'=&gt;'message-form',
          'htmlOptions'=&gt;array('target'=&gt;'_blank'),
      'enableClientValidation'=&gt;true,
      'clientOptions'=&gt;array(
          'validateOnSubmit'=&gt;true,
      ),
  )); ?&gt;
  
      &lt;p class="note"&gt;Fields with &lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; are required.&lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;?php echo $form-&gt;errorSummary($model_report_form); 
                  ?&gt;
          &lt;table class="table"&gt;
  
              &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;&lt;?php
                      echo $form-&gt;labelEx($model,'month');
                      $months = array(
                          '01'=&gt;'January', 
                          '02'=&gt;'February',
                          '03'=&gt;'March', 
                          '04'=&gt;'April',
                          '05'=&gt;'May', 
                          '06'=&gt;'June',
                          '07'=&gt;'July', 
                          '08'=&gt;'August',
                          '09'=&gt;'September', 
                          '10'=&gt;'October',  
                          '11'=&gt;'November', 
                          '12'=&gt;'December',
                          );
                      //$stat = array('13' =&gt; Yii::t('month','ALL'));
                      echo $form-&gt;dropdownlist($model_report_form,'month',$months,array('empty' =&gt; '--Select a month--'));                
                  //echo $form-&gt;textField($model,'end_date'); 
                  ?&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;&lt;?php echo $form-&gt;labelEx($model_report_form,'year');   
                  $years = array(
                          '2016'=&gt;'2016', 
                          '2017'=&gt;'2017',
                          '2018'=&gt;'2018', 
                          '2019'=&gt;'2019',
                          '2020'=&gt;'2020', 
                          '2021'=&gt;'2021',
                          '2022'=&gt;'2022', 
                          '2023'=&gt;'2023',  
                          '2024'=&gt;'2024', 
                          '2025'=&gt;'2025',
                          );
                      //$stat = array('3000' =&gt; Yii::t('year','ALL'));
                      echo $form-&gt;dropdownlist($model_report_form,'year',$years,array('empty' =&gt; '--Select a year--')); 
  
                  //echo $form-&gt;textField($model,'end_date'); 
                  ?&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  
  
              &lt;/tr&gt;
              &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;?php echo $form-&gt;hiddenField($model_report_form, 'employee',array('value'=&gt;$model-&gt;employee_id)); ?&gt;
                  &lt;?php echo $form-&gt;hiddenField($model_report_form, 'report_type',array('value'=&gt;'1')); ?&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
          &lt;/table&gt;
  
  
  
  
      &lt;div class="row buttons"&gt;
          &lt;?php echo CHtml::submitButton('Get Report',array('class'=&gt;'btn btn-primary btn-block')); ?&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;?php $this-&gt;endWidget(); ?&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- form --&gt;
  </code></pre>