For some reason, I can\'t get this to work.
My options list is populated dynamically using these scripts:
function addOption(selectId, value, text, sele
Your code works for me. When does addSalespersonOption
get called? There may be a problem with that call.
Also some of your html is a bit off (maybe copy/paste problem?), but that didn't seem to cause any problems. Your select should look like this:
<select id="salesperson">
<option value="">(select)</option>
</select>
instead of this:
<select id="salesperson" />
<option value"">(select)</option>
</select>
Edit: When does your options list get dynamically populated? Are you sure you are passing 'on'
for the defSales
value in your call to addSalespersonOption
? Try changing that code to this:
if (selected == "on") {
alert('setting default selected option to ' + text);
html = '<option value="'+value+'" selected="selected">'+text+'</option>';
}
and see if the alert happens and what is says if it does happen.
Edit: Working example of my testing (the error:undefined is from jsbin, not my code).
Your syntax is wrong.
You need to call attr with two parameters, like this:
$('.salesperson', newOption).attr('defaultSelected', "selected");
Your current code assigns the value "selected"
to the variable defaultSelected
, then passes that value to the attr
function, which will then return the value of the selected
attribute.
Pardon my ignorance, but why are you using $('.salesperson')
instead of $('#salesperson')
when dealing with an ID?
Here it goes.
// Select by value
$('select[name="options"]').find('option[value="3"]').attr("selected",true);
// Select by text
//$('select[name="options"]').find('option:contains("Third")').attr("selected",true);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<html>
<body>
<select name="options">
<option value="1">First</option>
<option value="2">Second</option>
<option value="3">Third</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
The defaultSelected
attribute is not settable, it's just for informational purposes:
Quote:
The defaultSelected property returns the default value of the selected attribute.
This property returns true if an option is selected by default, otherwise it returns false.
I think you want:
$('option[value=valueToSelect]', newOption).attr('selected', 'selected');
I.e. set the selected
attribute of the option
you want to select.
Without trying to fix your code, here's roughly how I would do it:
function buildSelect(options, default) {
// assume options = { value1 : 'Name 1', value2 : 'Name 2', ... }
// default = 'value1'
var $select = $('<select></select>');
var $option;
for (var val in options) {
$option = $('<option value="' + val + '">' + options[val] + '</option>');
if (val == default) {
$option.attr('selected', 'selected');
}
$select.append($option);
}
return $select;
}
You seem to have a lot of baggage and dependencies already and I can't tell you how to best integrate the selected option into your code without seeing more of it, but hopefully this helps.
Here is another way you can change the selected option of a <select>
element in javascript. You can use
document.getElementById('salesperson').selectedIndex=1;
Setting it to 1 will make the second element of the dropdown selected. The select element index start from 0.
Here is a sample code. Check if you can use this type of approach:
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function changeSelected() {
document.getElementById('salesperson').selectedIndex=1;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="f1">
<select id="salesperson" >
<option value"">james</option>
<option value"">john</option>
</select>
<input type="button" value="Change Selected" onClick="changeSelected();">
</form>
</body>
</html>