I've done it this way:
$('#selectid')[0].options[1].selected = true;
JK
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From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Andy Matthews
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:46 PM
To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
Subject: [jQuery] Forcing a select box to "select" a specified option
I'm doing a related select dropdown here (bottom middle of the page):
http://w3.normreeveshonda.com/pages/page.cfm?pageid=80976
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reid=-1> &pagetype=26&featureid=-1
In FF, under New vehicles, the Make dropdown defaults to HONDA as desired.
In IE though, it stays on "select a make". Here's the code that I'm passing
back to the page for that select box:
<option>select a make</option><option value="HONDA">HONDA</option>
Ideally, I'd just do this:
<option>select a make</option><option value="HONDA"
selected="selected">HONDA</option>
but that doesn't work for some odd reason. So I'd like to default it to the
first dropdown that has a value attribute. How would I go about that?
$('#RedMakeSelect:first-child [EMAIL PROTECTED]')
or something like that?
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