title: Get selected value of HTML Select dropdown
body: <p>What is the best way to get the selected value of an <code>HTML Select</code> element? I know for ASP.net I could do something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="myDrpDown" name="myDrpDown" class="form-control" multiple="multiple"&gt;&lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>C#</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>myDrpDown.SelectedValue 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am able to pull the selected text using this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Request.Form["myDrpDown"];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any advice?</p>