Select element onchange

Question

How can i acces an select element if it has been selected?

var select = document.getElementById("select");
if(select.selected == true)

doesnt work any idea?

Answer 1

document.getElementById("mySelect").value

or

var selObj = document.getElementById("mySelect"); selObj.options[selObj.selectedIndex].value;

Answer 2

The DOM tree is something like

Select
|-option
|-option
`-option

it is not the select node which can be selected. As such, you need to get the select, browse the childs, and test if the child is selected until you find one.