How to get the option value in javascript

Question

i have this code:

<SELECT onChange="chData(this,this.value)">
<OPTION VALUE="_MIPS-LRSYSCPU">MIPS
<OPTION VALUE="_XXCEC-LRSYSCPU">% CEC
<OPTION VALUE="_nIFL-LRSYSCPU">nIFL
</SELECT>

and I need to take with javascript all the value (not the text) of the option value that I have in the HTML PAGE. The problem is that In know that the value contains the word "-LRSYSCPU", but I don't know the previous part (Example _MIPS). the second problem is that I don't have the ID in the select so how can I take the option value? I have seen that people use this code:

var e = document.getElementById("elementId");
var value = e.options[e.selectedIndex].value;
var text = e.options[e.selectedIndex].text;

but I don't have the id so i dont know how to proceed..

I need to create an array with this three values : _MIPS-LRSYSCPU, _XXCEC-LRSYSCPU and _nIFL-LRSYSCPU. Thanks

Answer 1

If you are using only single select on the whole page then you can use -

let selectTags = document.getElementsByTagName('select');

then it will return you array of HTMLCollection [select]. Now you can get your select using selectTags[0], which is an object of type HTMLCollection . This object contains childNodes . Iterating over child nodes will give you all options and there values.

Answer 2

To grab all the option values in the page that include the substring "LRSYSCPU" you can use this code:

 // Grab all the options in the page const options = document.querySelectorAll('option'); // `filter` out the options that have the "LRSYSCPU" substring // in their values const filtered = [...options].filter(({ value }) => value.includes('-LRSYSCPU')); // Iterate over those filtered options with `map` and return only // the values const values = filtered.map(({ value }) => value); console.log(values); 

 <select> <option value="temp">temp</option> <option value="_MIPS-LRSYSCPU">MIPS</option> <option value="_XXCEC-LRSYSCPU">% CEC</option> <option value="temp2">temp2</option> <option value="_nIFL-LRSYSCPU">nIFL</option> </select> 

Documentation

• querySelectorAll

• filter

• map

Answer 3

You can use document.querySelectorAll() to find all options that end with -LRSYSCPU . You can then loop over them and test whether they're selected.

let options = document.querySelector("option[value$=-LRSYSCPU]");
for (let i = 0; i < options.length; i++) {
    if (options[i].selected) {
        value = options[i].value;
        text = options[i].text;
        break;
    }
}

If you use jQuery, it has a selector extension :selected , so you can do this without a loop:

var option = $("option[value$=-LRSYSCPU]:selected");
var value = option.val();
var text = option.text();