JavaScript to create a dropdown list and get the selected value

Answer 1

Example

HTML:

   
    button1
 

JavaScript

var div = document.querySelector("#container"),
    frag = document.createDocumentFragment(),
    select = document.createElement("select");

select.options.add( new Option("Method1","AU", true, true) );
select.options.add( new Option("Method2","FI") );


frag.appendChild(select);
div.appendChild(frag);