Fetch dropdownlist selected text using request.form

If you have a select element that looks like this:

<select id="ddlViewBy">
<option value="1">test1</option>
<option value="2" selected="selected">test2</option>
<option value="3">test3</option>
</select>

Running this code:

var e = document.getElementById("ddlViewBy");
var strUser = e.options[e.selectedIndex].value;

Would make strUser be 2. If what you actually want is test2, then do this:

var e = document.getElementById("ddlViewBy");
var strUser = e.options[e.selectedIndex].text;

Which would make strUser be test2

For HTML DropDownList

Add runat="server" attribute to mark-up and use the following code in code behind.

string selectedCountry = ddlCountry.Items[ddlCountry.SelectedIndex].Text;

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Hello all,

I created hidenn field in jquery ande allocated dropdown text to hidden field

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$('[id$=ddlCountry]').change(function () {
var selectedOption = $("#ddlCountry option:selected").text();
$("<input/>", { type: 'hidden', name: 'CountryName' }).val(selectedOption).appendTo("form");

alert("Handler for .change() called.");
});


In code behind
i used
Response.Write(Request["CountryName"]);

To read hidden field text
so i got text in my codebehined.
Thanks everyone for participating.

Regards,
SUNIL