alternative for .val() to use it for select option
<pre><code>&lt;select id="width"&gt;
 &lt;option value="23" selected="selected"&gt;10cm&lt;/option&gt;
 &lt;option value="26"&gt;100cm&lt;/option&gt;
 &lt;option value="43"&gt;1000cm&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>I have two similar select options, I am unable to get the value with the .val() function because it will get the id value (23,26,43) I wont to get the 10cm or 100cm or 1000cm.. and then remove the <strong>cm</strong> from the selected value and use that value to multiply with the value of the other select option called height. any ideas?</p>
