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

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 ; 

}

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