This turned out to be the solution................
var drp = $('#dropdown');
drp.children().each(function() {
$(this).removeAttr("selected");
}).end().append("<option value='"+insertid+"'
selected='selected'>"+project+"</option>");
I am sure jselect would have worked too (possibly a bit of an
overkill?), so thanks to RvFlash
On Apr 4, 10:31 am, LinkGuru <i...@legalanalytics.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
