HTMLSelectElement: options property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTMLSelectElement.options read-only property returns a HTMLOptionsCollection of the <option> elements contained by the <select> element.

Value

A HTMLOptionsCollection containing the <option> elements contained by the <select> element.

Examples

HTML

html

<label for="test">Label</label>
<select id="test">
  <option value="1">Option 1</option>
  <option value="2">Option 2</option>
</select>

JavaScript

js

window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
  const select = document.getElementById("test");
  for (const option of select.options) {
    console.log(option.label); // "Option 1" and "Option 2"
  }
});

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-select-options-dev

Browser compatibility