How to retrieve a selected value from a list box? - selenium

Question

HTML Content:
<select id="modalNewUser-body-information-timeZone" class="span12 ng-valid ng-dirty" ng-options="timezone for timezone in timezoneList" ng-model="newUser().timeZone" uid="timeZone" name="timezone">
<option selected="" value="">-- Select One --</option>
<option value="0">AST</option>
<option value="1">EST</option>
<option value="2">CST</option>
<option value="3">MST</option>
<option value="4">PST</option>
<option value="5">YST</option>
<option value="6">HST</option>
</select>
suppose I have selected 'EST' from the list box How can I retrieve it?
I am not able to retrieve with getFirstSelectedOption().getText()
Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("modalNewUser-body-information-timeZone")));
select.selectByVisibleText("EST");
String timeZone = select.getFirstSelectedOption().getText();

Answer 1

It is my understanding that you can only use Select elements when there is actually a 'select' tag. Often times, things that look like drop down boxes don't truly behave like Select elements. What if you tried to get the text this way (I'm C# here, but Java just has different capital letters for this, I believe):
string timeZone = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//option[#value = '1']")).Text;
expected return: "EST"

Answer 2

You can try this:
$("#modalNewUser-body-information-timeZone option:selected").text();

Answer 3

The code provide by you is working fine for me.
Could you please update your selenium version and try again?
Following is the tested code:
Select select = new Select(abhiDriver.findElement(By.id("modalNewUser-body-information-timeZone")));
select.selectByVisibleText("EST");
String timeZone = select.getFirstSelectedOption().getText();
System.out.println(timeZone);