title: Knockout.js - Get text selected value in a drop-down menu
body: <p>I would like to know how to get the value of the TEXT selected from the dropdown menu, just remember that my drop down menu has the fixed data and are not populated by a "ko.observableArray ()". Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>When I select an option want to have: Value and Text selection.</em></strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;
      Select a car:
      &lt;select data-bind="value: selectedValue, optionsText:???"&gt;
        &lt;option value="volvo"&gt;Volvo&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value="saab"&gt;Saab&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value="mercedes"&gt;Mercedes&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value="audi"&gt;Audi&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;/p&gt;
  
  &lt;span data-bind="text: selectedValue"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;br/&gt;
  &lt;span data-bind="text: selectedText"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong><em>My ko ViewModel:</em></strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>var viewModel = {
        selectedValue : ko.observable(),
        selectedText :  ko.observable()
  };
  
  ko.applyBindings(viewModel);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>See this Fiddle: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/Igaojsfiddle/b30tvt44/1/" rel="noreferrer">JSFiddle</a></p>