Normally when you're using drop downs, you can get the selected value through Javascript. Did you need of the selected drop down label previously? Here I'm going to give you a small function with which you can get it.


<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
//Function to get the drop down label for the given index
function getDropDownLabel(element)
{
 if($(element))
 {
  var obj=$(element);
  return obj[obj.selectedIndex].firstChild.nodeValue;
 }
}
function $(element)
{
 return document.getElementById(element);
}
</SCRIPT>


You can give a try with below example...





This program has been tested on all the major browsers like IE >= 6.0, Mozilla >= 2.0 and Google chrome...