retrieving items from a listbox using jQuery

Question

I ma trying to retrieve the options selected from a listbox using jQuery. Here is the code.

$('#rt_select').click(function(e) {
            var selectedOpts = $('#source-listbox option:selected');

}

I know that selectedOpts is an object so how to fetch the values of the options selected from this Object?

Answer 1

Like this,

   str = "";
   $.each(selectedOpts, function (index, value) {
    str += value+" ";
   });
   alert(str);