Selecting from buttons

Hi,

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I have the following code in my page:

<h3>Filter By</h3>

@for (int n = 1; n < 4; n++)
 {

<div class="control-group">
<div class="control-label">

 <div class="input-append">
    <select class="clause-selector gen-clauses">
            <option value="">@Translations.lang.select</option>
    </select>
        <button id="alpha-list" class="btn clause-list" type="button">
            <i class="icon-list"></i>
        </button>
        <button id="grouped-list" style="display:none" class="btn clause-list" type="button">
            <i class="icon-cat"></i>
        </button>
 </div>

</div>
</div>

}
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the two buttons toggle using the following JQUERY code:

    $('.clause-list').on("click", function (event) {
        var other = $(this).siblings('.clause-list').first();
        buildSearchClauses($(this).prevAll('.clause-selector').first(), (this.id !== 'alpha-list'));
        $(this).hide();
        other.show();
    });

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Now I want to write a JQUERY statement to get the Button selected by the user at the moment. Then I want to use it to do some action (Something like this):

function PerformActionOnButtonStatus()
{
     $('select.gen-clauses').each(function (key, sel)
    {    
     var selectedStatus = $(this).children('button').filter("button:selected").text();  //Can you help
     var sel = Selected Button object;  //Can you help
     
     if(selectedStatus = 'grouped')   //Grouped means that I selected button with id="alpha-list"
         { CallFunction1(sel, true); }
    else
         { CallFunction1(sel, false); }

    }
}    
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