# Getting the selected label of a dropdown

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getting-the-selected-label-of-a-dropdown/21956>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [January 17, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getting-the-selected-label-of-a-dropdown/21956 "2019-01-17T21:49:23Z")\
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To expand on Sam’s answer, especially if you don’t use integers as your option values:

Create a custom property on the dropdown component with the key ‘selectedLabel’.  
Create a Property binding for selectedLabel, linked to `this.props.value`.  
Add a Script transform with the following code:

```auto
x = None
for i in range(len(self.props.options)):
	if self.props.options[i].value == value:
		x = self.props.options[i].label
		break
return x

```

As Sam mentioned, you can then reference `self.getSibling('drReasonCode').custom.selectedLabel` in your event script.

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