How to set the 'selected option' of a select dropdown list with jquery

Question

I have the following jquery function:

$.post(\'GetSalesRepfromCustomer\', {
    data: selectedObj.value
}, function (result) {
    alert(result[0]);
    $(\'sele         


        

Answer 1

One thing I don't think anyone has mentioned, and a stupid mistake I've made in the past (especially when dynamically populating selects). jQuery's .val() won't work for a select input if there isn't an option with a value that matches the value supplied.

Here's a fiddle explaining -> http://jsfiddle.net/go164zmt/

    Test0
    Test1


$("#example").val("0");
alert($("#example").val());
$("#example").val("1");
alert($("#example").val());

//doesn't exist
$("#example").val("2");
//and thus returns null
alert($("#example").val());