HTMLSelectElement: labels 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 HTMLSelectElement.labels read-only property returns a NodeList of the <label> elements associated with the <select> element.

Value

A NodeList containing the <label> elements associated with the <select> element.

Examples

HTML

html
<label id="label1" for="test">Label 1</label>
<select id="test">
  <option value="1">Option 1</option>
  <option value="2">Option 2</option>
</select>
<label id="label2" for="test">Label 2</label>

JavaScript

js
window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
  const select = document.getElementById("test");
  for (const label of select.labels) {
    console.log(label.textContent); // "Label 1" and "Label 2"
  }
});

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-lfe-labels-dev

Browser compatibility

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