JavaScript – Proper Methods For Getting Values From SELECT LIST – SELECTED

JavaScript – Proper Methods For Getting Values From SELECT LIST
Given Select List:

<select id="ddlViewBy">
    <option value="1">test1</option>
    <option value="2" selected="selected">test2</option>
    <option value="3">test3</option>
</select>

Running this code:

var e = document.getElementById("ddlViewBy");
var strUser = e.options[e.selectedIndex].value;

Would make strUser  ==  “2".

If what you actually want is the text displayed value “test2", then do this:

var e = document.getElementById("ddlViewBy");
var strUser = e.options[e.selectedIndex].text;

strUser  ==  “test2"