Setting innerHtml of a selection box in IE

Question

On my website there is a situation where I need to append new < //option> tags to a specific selection box. I am doing the following:

1.Make an ajax request which

Answer 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276228

It's a known issue in IE. Sorry for wasting everyone's time, long story short options.innerHTML is buggy. The work around Microsoft suggest is wrapping your tag in a tag. Then you can use the div.innerHTML to change the code.

 <div id ="IEFix">
 <select name="TOR" id="TOR">

</select>
</div>


var x ='<select name="TOR" id="TOR">\n';    
x +='<option value="MVR Only(FTE)">MVR Only(FTE)</option>\n';
    x += '</select>\n';
    IEFix.innerHTML = x;

Answer 2

It's a known IE bug. You can either user DOM methods to append/replace the option elements, or you can use the workarounds suggested by Microsoft, one of which is to wrap your select in a div and set the div's innerHTML to "<select><option>..."