Getting the text from a drop-down box

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This gets the value of whatever is selected in my dropdown menu.

document.getElementById('newSkill').value

I cannot however find out what property to go after for the text that's currently displayed by the drop down menu. I tried "text" then looked at W3Schools but that didn't have the answer, does anybody here know?

For those not sure, here's the HTML for a drop down box.

<select name="newSkill" id="newSkill">
    <option value="1">A skill</option>
    <option value="2">Another skill</option>
    <option value="3">Yet another skill</option>
</select>
client-side browser dom javascript
13 Answers

Based on your example HTML code, here's one way to get the displayed text of the currently selected option:

var skillsSelect = document.getElementById("newSkill");
var selectedText = skillsSelect.options[skillsSelect.selectedIndex].text;
Patrick_McElhaney_4370

This should return the text value of the selected value

var vSkill = document.getElementById('newSkill');

var vSkillText = vSkill.options[vSkill.selectedIndex].innerHTML;

alert(vSkillText);

Props: @Tanerax for reading the question, knowing what was asked and answering it before others figured it out.

Edit: DownModed, cause I actually read a question fully, and answered it, sad world it is.

user_5670 
document.getElementById('newSkill').options[document.getElementById('newSkill').selectedIndex].value

Should work

user_4820 
function getValue(obj)
{  
   // it will return the selected text
   // obj variable will contain the object of check box
   var text = obj.options[obj.selectedIndex].innerHTML ; 

}

HTML Snippet 

 <asp:DropDownList ID="ddl" runat="server" CssClass="ComboXXX" 
  onchange="getValue(this)">
</asp:DropDownList>
user_88294620

Here is an easy and short method

document.getElementById('elementID').selectedOptions[0].innerHTML
user_34957130

Does this get the correct answer? 

document.getElementById("newSkill").innerHTML
user_7210

Found this a tricky question but using ideas from here I eventually got the solution using PHP & Mysqli to populate the list : and then a bit of javascript to get the working variable out.

        <select  id="mfrbtn" onchange="changemfr()" >   
        <option selected="selected">Choose one</option>
            <?php
            foreach($rows as $row)
                {
                echo '<option   value=implode($rows)>'.$row["Mfrname"].'</option>';
                 }
              ?>
          </select>

Then :

<script language="JavaScript">
    
    function changemfr()
    {
     var $mfr2=document.getElementById("mfrbtn").selectedOptions[0].text;
     alert($mfr2);
    }
</script>
user_160847260
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