Retreiving text in selectedIndex

[tuxedo]

At risk of asking a stupid question, I'd like to return the displayed
text-string of the selectedIndex contained in an options menu, and so I
tried the following one-liner:

document.forms[0].myDinner.options.selectedIndex.text;

But the above returns "undefined" for some reason? Although its not...

While if I do it in 2 steps, I can retrieve the correct string in a
roundabout way:

var where = document.forms[0].myDinner.options.selectedIndex;
alert(document.forms[0].myDinner.options[where].text)

What did I do wrong by the one-liner?

Thanks!

 

[Bart Van der Donck]

At risk of asking a stupid question, I'd like to return the displayed
text-string of the selectedIndex contained in an options menu, and so I
tried the following one-liner:

document.forms[0].myDinner.options.selectedIndex.text;

But the above returns "undefined" for some reason?

document.forms[0].myDinner.options[document.forms[0].myDinner.selectedIndex].text

 

[tuxedo]

Bart Van der Donck wrote:

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document.forms[0].myDinner.options[document.forms[0].myDinner.selectedIndex].text

aaha!! thank you!