# Capture Option data on Select Change
Sometimes we want to 'listen' to an event change of the `select` element. Especially when the option is changed - and get the newly selected value and store it elsewhere. For this we use `onchange` on the `select` element and not on the `option` element.
There are 2 ways to get the selected option's value, I'll show both, the first one being deprecated but still works but has been Legacy’d into standarization for the window object.
1. [event.target](http://event.target).selectedIndex
2. this.selectedIndex
The `event` object is part of `window` object which should be `window.event` but browsers *may* drop support for it in the future. Instead use `this.selectedIndex`.
`this[this.selectedIndex].getAttribute('data-email')`
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capture option data on select change