data-selected-country does not returns code

[bakcay]

Added selected attribute at first to div
data-selected-country="TR"
And initialized
$('#tcountry').flagStrap({ onSelect: function(value, element) { console.log(value); } });
After this all country selections returns own country code but TR returns empty.
if i dont add attribute TR returns.

[jvillane]

This happens when you select the same option within the select.

Something that worked in our case was using the element variable to obtain the value, hope it works for someone else:

$(element).children("option[selected=selected]").val();