JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by JSWorld

HTML

<div>
<label>Select</label>
<select>
    <option value="Test1">Without Quotes</option>
    <option value="Test'1">With Quotes</option>
    <option value="Test-2">With Hyphen</option>    
</select>
</div>

JavaScript

jQuery(document).ready(function(){    
    jQuery("select").on("change", function(){
        var selectedValue = jQuery(this).val();
        var optionValue = jQuery(this).find("option[value='" + selectedValue + "']").val();
        alert(optionValue);
    });
});