Flask - getting the text inside an html select option tag instead of the value of the option

Question

I have a select tag in my form

    <select name="source" id="source">
        {% for row in inode.inodes %}
            <option value="{{loop.index}}">{{ row.inode.title }}</option> 

While the values are used to order the options, what interests me is the text in the option.

however, in the python code,

source = request.form['source']

Is preferring the value. How can I retrieve the text inside the tag instead?

Muchas gracias

Answer 1

There can be multiple solutions to this.Try to implement one of these can see if it works

 1. You can keep value and text same
 2. Fetch value via jquery/js in frontend and then post it in variable to access them in flask
 3. Set data-attribute for options and send them to flask.[See here][1]