How to get selected value from Dropdown list in JavaScript

Question

How can you get the selected value from drop down list using JavaScript? I have tried the following but it does not work.

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Answer 1

Here is a simple example to get the selected value of dropdown in javascript

First we design the UI for dropdown

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Next we need to write script to get the selected item