How do I obtain the value of Select?

[html]

I have a select tag as follows

<SELECT ID="Select1" NAME="Select1" ONCHANGE="do_al ert()">
<OPTION>1</OPTION>
<OPTION>2</OPTION>
</SELECT>

I need, when the user choose an option, to print an alert
which displays the text in the option chosen, i.e. 1 or 2
in this example, but how do I access the value of the html
select tag, I tried

alert(document. getElementById( 'Select1').valu e);

But this seems to be an empty alert box. Any ideas what might I be
doing wrong?

Tia

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Re: How do I obtain the value of Select?

html wrote:

I have a select tag as follows
>
<SELECT ID="Select1" NAME="Select1" ONCHANGE="do_al ert()">
<OPTION>1</OPTION>
<OPTION>2</OPTION>
</SELECT>

HTML-wise (i.e., from the perspective we are supposed to have in this
group), that construct has more problems than I care to list down. This is
probably not your _real_ select element, is it?

I need, when the user choose an option, to print an alert
which displays the text in the option chosen,

That's external to HTML, of course, hence off-topic in this group. Your use
of the fake name "html" does not change that.

but how do I access the value of the html
select tag, I tried
>
alert(document. getElementById( 'Select1').valu e);

We could tell you, but that would be off-topic and would teach you wrong
habits, like posting to a wrong group and not reading the fine manual. So
consider reading a tutorial on the basics of an introduction to the elements
of JavaScript in the web context before trying to use JavaScript on the web.

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[Jonathan N. Little]

Re: How do I obtain the value of Select?

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

html wrote:
>

>I have a select tag as follows
>>
><SELECT ID="Select1" NAME="Select1" ONCHANGE="do_al ert()">
><OPTION>1</OPTION>
><OPTION>2</OPTION>
></SELECT>

>
HTML-wise (i.e., from the perspective we are supposed to have in this
group), that construct has more problems than I care to list down. This
is probably not your _real_ select element, is it?
>

>I need, when the user choose an option, to print an alert
>which displays the text in the option chosen,

>
That's external to HTML, of course, hence off-topic in this group. Your
use of the fake name "html" does not change that.
>

>but how do I access the value of the html
>select tag, I tried
>>
>alert(document .getElementById ('Select1').val ue);

>
We could tell you, but that would be off-topic and would teach you wrong
habits, like posting to a wrong group and not reading the fine manual.
So consider reading a tutorial on the basics of an introduction to the
elements of JavaScript in the web context before trying to use
JavaScript on the web.
>

As I recall MSIE will not automatically transfer the enclosed content of
an option element to its value attribute. You must implicitly define it
in your markup:
<SELECT ID="Select1" NAME="Select1"
ONCHANGE="alert (document.getEl ementById('Sele ct1').value)">
<OPTION VALUE="1">1</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="2">2</OPTION>
</SELECT>


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[Lars Eighner]

Re: How do I obtain the value of Select?

In our last episode, <48dd055a$1_3@m k-nntp-2.news.uk.tisca li.com>, the
lovely and talented html broadcast on comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:

I have a select tag as follows

The answer is the same as the last time you posted this.

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