Get selected value in datalist using jQuery

Question

Very simple and straight forward. I pre-populated a HTML datalist with values, on the form when I want select a value and insert it into SQLite database. This is my example code which is not working. Please help out. HTML5 datalist form creation:

<input  name="TypeList" list="TypeList" placeholder="Select Type"/>
<datalist id="TypeList">
    <option value="State">
    <option value="Area">
    <option value="Town">
    <option value="Street">
    <option value="Number">
    <option value="Local Government">
    <option value="Ward">
    <option value="Country">
</datalist>

this is the sample jquery code that did not work:

var relationshipTemp = $('#TypeList option:selected').text();

Answer 1

Have a selector to select the input element. Mention the event after which you want the values to be moved. Get the value by using .val().

Example:

$("input[name=TypeList]").focusout(function(){
    alert($(this).val());
});

Hope this is what you are looking for jsFiddle