Getting the text from a drop-down box

Question

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

document.getElementById(\'newSkill\').value

I cannot however find out what

Answer 1

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;