how to send a value from a HTML dropdown box to a JQuery function
<p>I'm very new to JQuery and don't have much experience with javascript at all, and after hours of trying to figure this out i give up. I know how to do it in PHP, but there's something I'm missing when I try it in JQuery.</p>

<p>I have a html-file that generates a dorpdown box that looks something like tihs:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;form action="" method="GET"&gt;
  &lt;select id="countiesList" name="counties"&gt;
    &lt;option value="all" selected="selected"&gt;All Counties&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="county1"&gt;County 1&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="county2"&gt;County 2&lt;/option&gt;
    ...
  &lt;/select&gt;
&lt;/from&gt;
</code></pre>

<ol>
<li>How do I get the selected value from the dropdownbox in to a JQuery function?
Do I have to refer to the function I want to use in the form?</li>
<li>Should I have a submit button? (I'd prefer not to)</li>
</ol>

<p>--edited--
My point is that I want to find out which of the options the user selects, so that I can use it in another function.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
