Watir / Ruby: How to get the text of the selected item in a drop down list?

Question

Using Watir, how can I return the text of the currently selected item in a drop down list? It appears that getSelectedItems is deprecated.

Answer 1

Use selected_options() instead.

selected_options () Description:

Gets all the selected items in the select list as an array. An empty array is returned if the select box has no selected item. Output:

Array containing the selected items of the select list.

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Answer 2

The watir documentation also says you can do  

browser.select_list.selected_options.map(&:text)

but this returns the text in an array, I guess it would be useful to do it this way if you have multiple items selected in the list.

['selected text']