HTML | DOM Option label Property

Last Updated : 13 Feb, 2019

The Option label property in HTML DOM is used to set or return the value of the label attribute in an <option> element. The label attribute is used to specify the label for an option. This attribute contains the text value which represents the shorted label for the option.

Syntax:

It is used to return the label property.
```
optionObject.label
```
It is used to set the label property.
```
optionObject.label = text
```

Property Value: This property contains single value text which is used to represents the shorted label for option.

Return Value: It returns a string value which represent the shortest label for option element or in a drop-down list.

Example 1: This example describes how to set option label property.

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html>  
    <head>  
        <title> 
            HTML DOM Option label Property 
        </title> 
    </head> 
      
    <body style="text-align:center;">  
      
        <h1 style="color:green;"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1>  
          
        <h2>DOM option label Property</h2>  
          
        <select>  
            <option>Choose an option</option>  
            <option id="GFG" label="html">HTML</option>  
            <option id="Geeks" label="java">JAVA</option>  
            <option id="sudo" label="C++">C++</option>  
        </select> <br><br><br><br><br> 
          
        <button onclick = "myGeeks()"> 
            Submit 
        </button> 
          
        <!-- script to use option label property -->
        <script> 
            function myGeeks() { 
                document.getElementById("Geeks").label 
                        = "Javascript";              
            } 
        </script> 
    </body>  
</html>                                                                           

Output:
Before Click on the Button:

After Click on the Button:

Example 2: This example describes how to return Option label property.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
      
<head> 
    <title> 
        HTML DOM option label Property 
    </title> 
</head> 
  
<body style = "text-align:center;"> 
  
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>  
      
    <h2>DOM option label Property</h2>  
      
    <select>  
        <option>Choose an option</option>  
        <option id="GFG" label="html">HTML</option>  
        <option id="Geeks" label="java">JAVA</option>  
        <option id="sudo" label="C++">C++</option>  
    </select> 
      
    <br><br> 
  
    <button onclick = "myGeeks()"> 
        Submit 
    </button> 
  
    <p id="demo" style="font-size:25px;color:green;"></p> 
      
    <!-- script to return option label property -->
    <script> 
        function myGeeks() { 
            var x = document.getElementById("Geeks").label; 
            document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>                     