title: Unable to get selected value from list box in IE 8
body: <p>Unable to get selected value from list box in IE 8</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="fileName" style="width: 100%;" size="3" name="uploadedfile"&gt;
  &lt;option id="my1Div"&gt;test1&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option id="my3Div"&gt;test2&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option id="my5Div"&gt;test3&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting the value like the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>var myvalue= document.getElementById("fileName").value;
  alert(myvalue);
  </code></pre>