How to get Javascript Select box's selected text
this.options[this.selectedIndex].innerHTML
should provide you with the "displayed" text of the selected item. this.value
, like you said, merely provides the value of the value
attribute.
In order to get the value of the selected item you can do the following:
this.options[this.selectedIndex].text
Here the different options
of the select are accessed, and the SelectedIndex
is used to choose the selected one, then its text
is being accessed.
Read more about the select DOM here.
Please try this code:
$("#YourSelect>option:selected").html()