title: How do I access the "displayed" text of a select box option from the DOM?
body: <p>Given the following HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="my_dropdown" id="my_dropdown"&gt;
  &lt;option value="1"&gt;displayed text 1&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I grab the string "displayed text 1" using Javascript/the DOM?</p>