how to get the selected option value of dropdown in jquery code example

Example 1: how to fetch the selected value of dropdown jquery

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$('#ddlName option:selected').val();

Example 2: jquery get dropdown selected value

<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownListId" runat="server" CssClass="DropDownListClass"></asp:DropDownList>

var value1 = $("[id*=DropDownListId]").val();
var value2 = $(".DropDownListClass").val();