User Guide

ComboBox component 207

See also

ComboBox.selectedItem

Availability

Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).

Edition

Flash MX 2004.

Usage

myComboBox.selectedItem

Description

Property; the value of the selected item in the drop-down list.

If the combo box is editable,

selectedItem returns undefined if the user enters any text in the

text box. The property only has a value if you select an item from the drop-down list or set the

value using ActionScript. If the combo box is static, the value of

selectedItem is always valid; it

returns

undefined if there are no items in the list.

Example

The following example shows selectedItem if the data provider contains primitive types:

var item = myComboBox.selectedItem;

trace("You selected the item " + item);

The following example shows selectedItem if the data provider contains objects with label and

data properties:

var obj = myComboBox.selectedItem;

trace("You have selected the color named: " + obj.label);

trace("The hex value of this color is: " + obj.data);