Retreiving label of a selection box

Hi,

I'm trying to get the label attribute of a selection box through form API, but couldn't succeed.

I had used IWDatacapture.getItem.getValue() method, but returns me the index of the option values used in the selection box.

I tried using getOption(), but it failed. Smiley Sad

Please let me know if someone has used any other function to get the label in a selection box.

Thanks,
Maddy

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Nidhi_Agrawal

Hi ,

To get the label of the selected option of the /d select item:
item = IWDatacapture.getItem("/d");
label = item.getOptions()[item.getValue()].text;
Hope this can help you.

Nidhi Agrawal

Hi,

I'm trying to get the label attribute of a selection box through form API, but couldn't succeed.

I had used IWDatacapture.getItem.getValue() method, but returns me the index of the option values used in the selection box.

I tried using getOption(), but it failed.

Please let me know if someone has used any other function to get the label in a selection box.

Thanks,
Maddy

kaalraa

Hi,
I'm trying to get the label attribute of a selection box through form API, but couldn't succeed.
I had used IWDatacapture.getItem.getValue() method, but returns me the index of the option values used in the selection box.
I tried using getOption(), but it failed.
Please let me know if someone has used any other function to get the label in a selection box.
Thanks,
Maddy

Assuming the 'label' as the displayed text value of a select box you can use the follwoing code:


var areaVar=IWDatacapture.getItem("/areaSelect");
var areaOptions = areaVar.getOptions();
var numOptions = areaOptions.length;
for (i=0; i < numOptions; i++)
{
 alert(areaOptions.value);
}

Please check the syntax before using the exact code, as i have written it just now logically.