Option label Property

Change the label value of an option in a drop-down list:

document.getElementById("myOption").label = "newLabel";

Description

The label property sets or returns the value of the label attribute in an option in a drop-down list.

The label attribute specifies a shorter version of an option.

The shorter version will be displayed in the drop-down list.

Property
label	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Note: It is not possible to set the label property in Firefox (only return).

Return the label property:

optionObject.label

Set the label property:

optionObject.label = text

Value	Description
text	Specifies a shorter version for the option

Return Value:	A String, representing the label of the option in the drop-down list. If the label attribute is not specified, it will return the <option> element's text content instead (same as the text property)

Return the label value of an option in a drop-down list:

var x = document.getElementById("myOption").label;

Alert the label value of the selected option in a drop-down list:

var x = document.getElementById("mySelect").selectedIndex;
alert(document.getElementsByTagName("option")[x].label);