how to get text of select tag when you know value of that text

[Trisha8]

i have a string variable which contain value. now i want to access text to which this value belongs.
Any idea??

<select>
  <option value="v">Volvo</option>
  <option value="s">Saab</option>
  <option value="m">Mercedes</option>
  <option value="a">Audi</option>
</select>

suppose variable=v then i should be able to alert 'Volvo'.

[acoder]

If it's not the selected option, you will need to loop over the options array and get the text property.

elem.options[index].text

If you use jQuery, for example, you could use something like

$("#elem option[value='v']").text()