Selectmenu val() in IE8

Selectmenu val() in IE8

There's always a strong chance that I'm approaching this incorrectly.


I have a selectmenu which I'm trying to retrieve the current selected value from, and it is giving me the ole "Object doesn't support this property or method" in IE8. This works correctly in all other browsers I've tried (moz and webkit based). 


1.) Is there a better select menu plugin I could be using?


2.) Is there a more proper way to accomplish this?


The select menu contains a list of domains, so the line of code looks like this:


      domain = $("#domain").val();


I've also tried:


      domain = $("#domain").selectmenu("value");




Thanks in advance!