Question

I want to know how to read the DropDown list value from the JSP. Below is the code of my JSP.

   <fieldset>
   <s:form theme="simple" enctype="multipart/form-data"  name="uploadDocument" method="POST" action="?">
   <table>
   <tr>
   <td wrap>Select The Type of Letter to Upload:</td><td><s:select id="letters" list="letterList" name="ListofLetters" headerKey="-1" headerValue="--Select The Letter Type--"/></td>
    <tr>
    <td nowrap ><s:file name="userFile" label="userFile" size="25" id="upload" /></td>
    <td  class="button-blue"><s:submit action="Upload" value="Attach File" onclick=" return validateFile()"/></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </s:form>
    </fieldset> 

where the list is populated dynamically from the Database.I wanted to know how to get the Dropdownlist value not the key.
Because when i used

document.getElementById('letters').value

It returns me the keyvalue like “0,1,2 etc” how can i get the value associated with the individual key so i can perform the proper check.
Thanks in Advance 🙂

Answer 1

Use this to get the currently selected option’s text:

var sel = document.getElementById('letters');
var selText = sel.options[sel.selectedIndex].text;

Fiddle