Adding options to a <select> using jQuery?

Question

What\'s the easiest way to add an option to a dropdown using jQuery?

Will this work?

$(\"#mySelect\").append(\'My         


        

Answer 1

To help performance you should try to only alter the DOM once, even more so if you are adding many options.

var html = '';

for (var i = 0, len = data.length; i < len; ++i) {
    html.join('' + data[i]['label'] + '');
}           

$('#select').append(html);