how to get value from list box in html

Question

This is an example,

<select>
    <option value=1>Cars</option>
</select>

How i can get the value of selected "1" and value in list box "Cars"?

I believe that you have to use either submit a form or use some Javascript in order to access those values. Check out [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1085810/1911676) for an idea of how to use Javascript to get the values you want. — Enigmadan, Jul 13 '13 at 08:27

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '13 at 09:16

3

try out this

<select id="selectID">
    <option value=1>Cars</option>
</select>

using javascript

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

answered Jul 13 '13 at 09:16

Vijay

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 13 '13 at 08:29

2

jQuery("#sltbox").find("option[value=1]").attr("selected","selected")

Give id as sltbox to your select tag.

edited Jul 13 '13 at 08:29

Mr. Alien

answered Jul 13 '13 at 08:22

Jay Shukla

Where was jQuery (or JavaScript) mentioned? – Blender Jul 13 '13 at 08:23
Then add selected attribute directly to your option tag. like this – Jay Shukla Jul 13 '13 at 08:25
@Blender - you can't be serious. You expect to perform conditional action only in markup? Even Angular is syntactic sugar that ties to Javascript. – pmont Sep 09 '14 at 19:33
@pmont: There's not enough information to even tell what language OP is working with. – Blender Sep 09 '14 at 23:15

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