selecting a select list in jquery
<p>There has to be something really simple that I am overlooking, but for some reason I cannot find any information about this and it keeps coming up so..</p>

<p>I am trying to select a select element in jquery. Right now I don't care about it's options, I just want the select element. If I have the following element:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;select id="testSelect"&gt;&lt;option&gt;1&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>and I use jquery to select it:</p>

<pre><code>var selectElement = $("#testSelect");
</code></pre>

<p>I get an array of all the options in the select list, but not the select element itself. What am I missing?</p>
