How to get text and value of certain DropDown item (not the selected item)?

[Poqwe]

I need to get the value of the last dropdown item. How can I achieve this?
I managed to get the items in my OnOpen client event:

var items = $(this).data("tDropDownList").dropDown.$items;

After that I know I can reference the last item  and change the class like

items[items.length-1].className += " myClass";

But how can I get the items text or value?
What are the elements called that the actual values are stored into?

Thanks in advance!

[John DeVight]

Hi Poque,

The data is stored in a DropDownList in the data attribute as an array of JSON objects.  For example, if I have a DropDownList called dropdownlist, to get the data for the DropDownList, I can use the following statement:

var data = $('#dropdownlist).data('tDropDownList').data;

Each object in the JSON array has 2 attributes, Text and Value.  So, to get the text and value for the first item in the DropDownList, you can do the following:

var data = $('#dropdownlist).data('tDropDownList').data;
var text = data[0].Text;
var value = data[0].Value;

Hope this helps.

Regards,

John DeVight

[Ken Lewis]

Hi John,

I'm very grateful for your post. It is a very clear explanation and exactly what I needed.

Thanks!

Ken