HTMLOptionElement: index property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The read-only index property of the HTMLOptionElement interface specifies the 0-based index of the element; that is, the position of the <option> within the list of options it belongs to, in tree-order, as an integer. If the <option> is not part of an option-list, the value is 0.

Value

A number.

Examples

js
const optionElement = document.getElementById("myOption");
console.log(optionElement.index);

Specifications

Specification

HTML
# dom-option-index-dev

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