How to do this in jQuery
<p>I have the following code:</p>

<pre><code>var tempIdx = document.getElementById('cityBuild').selectedIndex;
var tempBuilding = document.getElementById('cityBuild').options[tempIdx].value;

// Do stuff with tempBuilding
</code></pre>

<p>I spent some time trying to do it in jQuery under the assumption it'd be easier, it wasn't. I tried what was given at <a href="http://marcgrabanski.com/article/jquery-select-list-values" rel="nofollow">this site</a> but is never returned any of the values. Am I doing something wrong or is this something that jQuery simply doesn't do?</p>

<p>The item is a select box (single selection only) and I want to get the value from it.</p>
