JavaScript: Access DropDownList's current SelectedText value?

[Jeremy]

In client-side JavaScript, how does one retrieve into a variable the
currently displayed text in a DropDownList control.

I tried this, but it gets the current ID/value- not the displayed text:
var curText = document.all("DDLSomeList").value

This doesn't work either (although SelectedItem.Text works in code-behind):
var curText = document.all("DDLSomeList").SelectedItem.Text;

Thanks!

 

[Craig Deelsnyder]

In client-side JavaScript, how does one retrieve into a variable the
currently displayed text in a DropDownList control.

I tried this, but it gets the current ID/value- not the displayed text:
var curText = document.all("DDLSomeList").value

This doesn't work either (although SelectedItem.Text works in
code-behind):
var curText = document.all("DDLSomeList").SelectedItem.Text;

Thanks!

Try

var oDDL = document.all("DDLSomeList");
var curText = oDDL.options[oDDL.selectedIndex].text;

 

[Jeremy]

Bingo!

thanks.