Found a solution, because the combobox html properties are built dynamically, there is no unique id for the input box to grab the text from. So instead I dive into all the div’s that get generated beneath my combobox $(‘#myComboBox’). The input tag is under one 3 layers of div, so calling $(‘#dropdownlistContentmyComboBox‘).val() will always retrieve the text inside the combo box. I believe the dropdownlistContent is always static, and what follows is the unique ID for the combo box.