Get value from selected form_dropdown()

[eluser]bondjp[/eluser]
[quote author="WishBear*" date="1268860622"]Just to give you an idea:

Code:

<?php
    $options = array('Single'  => 'Single','Married' => 'Married', 'Widowed' => 'Widowed');

    echo form_dropdown('CivilStatus', $options, $this->validation->CivilStatus);
    echo $this->validation->CivilStatus_error;
?>

To be able to get the value of that particular form object, in my own way I used Javascript getElementbyId(), try to take a look at it on the http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_doc_g...ntbyid.asp[/quote]

thanks.
Can you be a bit more specific about $this->validation->CivilStatus and $this->validation->CivilStatus_error ?
Sorry, i'm still newbie .