[jQuery] Re: Setting a newly inserted option as the selected option

2009-04-17 Thread Nando
Thanks Raja. That worked! For reference, I also needed to put something in place to wait until the .trigger('refreshOpts'); call had completed. The use of animate() as a sort of sleep routine is a bit of a kludge, since it seems .trigger() doesn't implement a callback, so I wound up with this:

[jQuery] Re: Setting a newly inserted option as the selected option

2009-04-17 Thread Raja Koduru
$("#refSelectBox option[text^=" + author + "]").attr("selected","selected"); I guess the above is doable. let me know. - raja koduru On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Nando wrote: > > I'd like set a newly inserted option in a select box as the selected > option. I'm trying to use jQuery to sele