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Select - Programatically select item

in Using jQuery • 11 years ago

This is driving me nuts. I have two Selects, both populated on the server side - client side the option is selected programatically via jquery.

However, only one works correctly, same code!

I have verified (on the non-working one) that the value I am trying to select exists and is correct. IT JUST DONT WORK!!!!

                var settlementAgent = GetNodeText(objColumns, "SettleMentAgent");
                $('txtEscrow_SettleMentAgent option[value="' + settlementAgent + '"]').attr('selected', 'selected');
                $('txtEscrow_SettleMentAgent').selectmenu('refresh'); // Doesnt work

                var temp = GetNodeText(objColumns, "LenderCD");
                $('#selectLender option[value="' + temp + '"]').attr('selected', 'selected');
                $('#selectLender').selectmenu('refresh'); // Works as expected.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Replies(3)

kbwood.au

Re: Select - Programatically select item

11 years ago

It looks like you are missing a '#' at the start of your selector to choose an element by its ID:

var settlementAgent = GetNodeText(objColumns, 'SettleMentAgent');
$('#txtEscrow_SettleMentAgent option[value="' + settlementAgent + '"]').attr('selected', 'selected');
$('#txtEscrow_SettleMentAgent').selectmenu('refresh');