title: how to get selected text of drop down list in jsp
body: <p>This is my drop down list in jsp:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="any.jsp"&gt;
    &lt;select name="item"&gt;
       &lt;option value="1"&gt;Cricket&lt;/option&gt;
       &lt;option value="2"&gt;Football&lt;/option&gt;
       &lt;option value="3"&gt;Hockey&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit"&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in any.jsp I want to access the selected text of the drop down list not the value. so can anyone please help me with that.</p>