This is an issue related to Semantic UI's dropdowns at https://semantic-ui.com/modules/dropdown.html.

I have a bunch of multiselect dropdowns defined and have declared the line

$('.ui.dropdown')
  .dropdown()
;

well before doing any sort of operations with the dropdowns, in order to activate the dropdowns' behavior. Curiously, however,

1. when I try using certain methods on the dropdown, such as $("#" + mydropdown.id).dropdown("get text"), I get an error in the Chrome Dev Tools, saying "Uncaught TypeError: No method named "get text".
2. But when I try to simply use $("#" + mydropdown.id).dropdown(), it works: I am able to access the dropdown element without any issue whatsoever.

What could be the cause? I am absolutely clueless as to why this could be happening. Any hypotheses as to what could be happening are appreciated.