Option()

Constructor for creating an HTMLOptionElement. The Option constructor is from the very early days of DOM scripting and has non–standard syntax, but has ubiquitous support in browsers.

Syntax

var optionElementReference = new Option([text, [value, [defaultSelected, [selected]]]]);

Return value and parameters

optionElementReference

A reference to the newly created HTMLOptionElement.

text

A string that sets the content of the element, i.e. the displayed text.

value

A string that sets the value attribute.

defaultSelected

A boolean that sets the selected attribute, the default is false. A value of true does not set the option to selected. 

selected

A boolean that sets the option's selected state, the default is false (not selected). If omitted, even if the defaultSelected argument is true, the option is not selected.

Specification