Node firstChild Property - Get the text of the first child node of a <select> element: - Javascript DOM

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Node firstChild Property - Get the text of the first child node of a <select> element:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<select id="mySelect" size="4">
    <option>Java</option>
    <option>SQL</option>
    <option>HTML</option>
    <option>CSS</option><
/select>
<br><br>
<button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button>

<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
function myFunction() {//from  w w w  .  j av a  2s.  c  o m
    var x = document.getElementById("mySelect").firstChild.text;
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x;
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

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