How to get the selected menu item text from JavaScript

[Ian]

I would like to get the text for a selected menu item from JavaScript/jQuery in a clean way. I would rather not use jQuery matching for specific classes if possible, I'm hoping for something like:

$("#myMenu").getSelectedItemText()

Alternatively, I guess I could populate a variable during a Select event handler or something. 

Any suggestions?  Thanks!

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Ian,

 You can use the following code to get the selected item's text:

function onSelect(e) {
      var item = e.item;
      var text = $(e.item).children(".k-link").text();
}

A live demo is available here: http://demos.kendoui.com/web/menu/events.html

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
Telerik

[Ian]

Thanks for the reply. I see how this would work and similarly I could also get the selected text outside of a select handler using ".children(".k-state-selected").text()". I was not sure it was good practice, however,  to use specific classes for this purpose (implementation detail) rather than to use a Kendo API function. I'm guessing there is no such function :)