APEX

first post on here so hello everybody,

I've looked through the forum and the examples but can't quite figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've got a text field which I use to call an on demand process via Javascript to fill a LOV or a multiselect list based on the input in the text field.
I then want to access the selected value in the LOV via javascript but I can't seem to get this right. All the examples I've found so far seem to be for dependent LOVs, and not for LOVs based on a text search.

Thing I can't figure out is I can access the selected value in the LOV when I select the LOV directly, but not when the LOV is filled via the results of the text search.

Can anybody give me an idea what I'm doing wrong?

Ed