Thanks RvFlash, I'll take a look. I just missed your post before I
sent my chase up message.
On Apr 4, 10:29 am, LinkGuru <i...@legalanalytics.co.uk> wrote:
> Can anyone help with this? It appears to have been overlooked. The
> title should really have been "changing the selected item in a
> dropdown" (perhaps) because I know how to do the append, I just can't
> get my head around how to modify the existing items in the list. Will
> it be easier to rebuild the list?
>
> On Apr 3, 6:22 pm, LinkGuru <i...@legalanalytics.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > With the following code, I'm managing to append to a drop-down list
> > using jQuery, but can't figure out how to amend one of the existing
> > items in the drop down so it is not the selected one i.e. I only want
> > the one that's appended to be the selected one.
> > Can anyone help?
> > Here is the simplified code.
>
> > $(".actionOptAdd").bind("click",
> > function()
> > {
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > $.getJSON('lib/addToProj.php',
> > {....}, function(data)
> > }, function(data)
> > {
> > $.each(data, function(i,item)
> > {
> > if ( i == "project"
> > )project=item;
> > if ( i == "insertid"
> > )insertid=item;
> > });
> > var drp = $('#dropdown');
> > drp.append("<optionvalue='"+insertid+"'
> > selected='selected'>"+project+"</option>");
> > });
> > }
> > );
> > //Thanks in advance.
