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I have a drop down list of possible values for one of my questions that asks for the respondents CRM vendor. I would like to get the text value of the selected answer from the dropdown list and set it to an embedded variable. My attempt looks like the below:

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function ()
{
var CRM = this.getSelectedAnswers();
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('CRM' ,CRM);

};

Of course, my code doesn't work and I assuming either my syntax or parameters (maybe both?) are wrong.

Any help is highly appreciated.
Try getting selected choices instead of answers:
```
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function ()
{
var CRM = this.getSelectedChoices();
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('CRM' ,CRM);

};
```
Thanks Tom. Instead of return the number of the choice, is there anyway to have it return the text? i.e. if Salesforce was choice 1 it would assign CRM variable the string of Salesforce and not the value of 1.
> @HPowell said:
> Thanks Tom. Instead of return the number of the choice, is there anyway to have it return the text? i.e. if Salesforce was choice 1 it would assign CRM variable the string of Salesforce and not the value of 1.

```
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function() {
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("CRM",jQuery("#"+this.questionId+" option:selected").text());
});
```

Get selected answer from dropdown list JSHi I have tried it but It show us nothing in console. How can I see it works true?
Well I have run it before page not submited:
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function () { 
var SelectedChoices = jQuery("#"+this.questionId+" option:selected").text() 
console.log(SelectedChoices); });
image.pngThen, I submit page and I wait It show us selected answer in previous submited page. But It shows me nothing.
image.pngI guess it doesnt find this.questionId. How can I fix it?
Thanks.

@firat,
The problem isn't with this.questionId. The JS is to get the text from a dropdown, and your question isn't a dropdown.

I've been using the following to extract the text from the webpage itself, maybe it'll work for you as well.

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function (type) {
    if (type == "next") {
        var selChoice = this.getSelectedChoices();
        var choiceRef = "";
        var choiceText = "";
        for (let i = 0; i < selChoice.length; i++) {
            choiceRef = "#" + this.questionId + "-" + selChoicei] + "-label > span";
            choiceText = document.querySelector(choiceRef).innerHTML;
            Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData(choiceText,true);
        }
    }
});

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