Getting the text from a drop-down box

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Based on your example HTML code, here’s one way to get the displayed text of the currently selected option:

var skillsSelect = document.getElementById("newSkill");
var selectedText = skillsSelect.options[skillsSelect.selectedIndex].text;

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