Getting an Selected Text from a Dropdownt List.

Below code returns the Inner Text value of an item in a select list.
Suppose,we have Employee dropdownlist,which contains the list of employees as shown below:-

<select Id ='ddl_employee'>
    <option value = '1'>Vishal</option>
    <option value = '2'>Vinod</option>
    <option value = '3'>Sarita</option>
    <option value = '4'>Pramod</option>
</select>

Here,1 is a Value and Vishal is a Text and so on.So to get a Text Vishal,we will write below jQuery code as:-

finction getText()
{
   alert($("#ddl_employee option[value='1']").text()); 
   alert($("#ddl_employee option[value='2']").text());
}

Output:-
Vishal
Vinod