[javascript] How to get Javascript Select box's selected text

This things works perfectly

<select name="selectbox" onchange="alert(this.value)">

But I want to select the text. I tried in this way

<select name="selectbox" onchange="alert(this.text)">

It shows undefined. I found how to use DOM to get text. But I want to do this in this way, I means like using just this.value.

In order to get the value of the selected item you can do the following:

this.options[this.selectedIndex].text

Here the different options of the select are accessed, and the SelectedIndex is used to choose the selected one, then its text is being accessed.

Read more about the select DOM here.

Just use

$('#SelectBoxId option:selected').text(); For Getting text as listed

$('#SelectBoxId').val(); For Getting selected Index value

If you want to get the value, you can use this code for a select element with the id="selectBox"

let myValue = document.querySelector("#selectBox").value;

If you want to get the text, you can use this code

var sel = document.getElementById("selectBox");
var text= sel.options[sel.selectedIndex].text;

Please try this code:

$("#YourSelect>option:selected").html()

I know no-one is asking for a jQuery solution here, but might be worth mentioning that with jQuery you can just ask for:$('#selectorid').val()