Set select option 'selected', by value

Question

I have a select field with some options in it. Now I need to select one of those options with jQuery. But how can I do that when I only know the value of the option that must be selected?

I have the following HTML:

<div class="id_100">
  <select>
    <option value="val1">Val 1</option>
    <option value="val2">Val 2</option>
    <option value="val3">Val 3</option>
  </select>
</div>

I need to select the option with value val2. How can this be done?

Here's a demo page: http://jsfiddle.net/9Stxb/

Answer 1

Use:

$("div.id_100 > select > option[value=" + value + "]").attr("selected",true);

This works for me. I'm using this code for parsing a value in a fancybox update form, and my full source from app.js is:

jQuery(".fancybox-btn-upd").click(function(){
    var ebid = jQuery(this).val();

    jQuery.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: js_base_url+"manajemen_cms/get_ebook_data",
        data: {ebookid:ebid},
        success: function(transport){
            var re = jQuery.parseJSON(transport);
            jQuery("#upd-kategori option[value="+re['kategori']+"]").attr('selected',true);
            document.getElementById("upd-nama").setAttribute('value',re['judul']);
            document.getElementById("upd-penerbit").setAttribute('value',re['penerbit']);
            document.getElementById("upd-tahun").setAttribute('value',re['terbit']);
            document.getElementById("upd-halaman").setAttribute('value',re['halaman']);
            document.getElementById("upd-bahasa").setAttribute('value',re['bahasa']);

            var content = jQuery("#fancybox-form-upd").html();
            jQuery.fancybox({
                type: 'ajax',
                prevEffect: 'none',
                nextEffect: 'none',
                closeBtn: true,
                content: content,
                helpers: {
                    title: {
                        type: 'inside'
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    });
});

And my PHP code is:

function get_ebook_data()
{
    $ebkid = $this->input->post('ebookid');
    $rs = $this->mod_manajemen->get_ebook_detail($ebkid);
    $hasil['id'] = $ebkid;
    foreach ($rs as $row) {
        $hasil['judul'] = $row->ebook_judul;
        $hasil['kategori'] = $row->ebook_cat_id;
        $hasil['penerbit'] = $row->ebook_penerbit;
        $hasil['terbit'] = $row->ebook_terbit;
        $hasil['halaman'] = $row->ebook_halaman;
        $hasil['bahasa'] = $row->ebook_bahasa;
        $hasil['format'] = $row->ebook_format;
    }
    $this->output->set_output(json_encode($hasil));
}

Answer 2

$('#graphtype option[value=""]').prop("selected", true);

This works well where #graphtype is the id of the select tag.

example select tag:

 <select name="site" id="site" class="form-control" onchange="getgraph1(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);">
    <option value="" selected>Site</option> 
    <option value="sitea">SiteA</option>
    <option value="siteb">SiteB</option>
  </select>

Answer 3

<select name="contribution_status_id" id="contribution_status_id" class="form-select">
    <option value="1">Completed</option>
    <option value="2">Pending</option>
    <option value="3">Cancelled</option>
    <option value="4">Failed</option>
    <option value="5">In Progress</option>
    <option value="6">Overdue</option>
    <option value="7">Refunded</option>

Setting to Pending Status by value

   $('#contribution_status_id').val("2");

Answer 4

Just put in this code:

$("#Controls_ID").val(value);

Answer 5

There's an easier way that doesn't require you to go into the options tag:

$("div.id_100 select").val("val2");

Check out the this jQuery method.

Answer 6

I think the easiest way is selecting to set val(), but you can check the following. See How to handle select and option tag in jQuery? for more details about options.

$('div.id_100  option[value="val2"]').prop("selected", true);

$('id_100').val('val2');

Not optimised, but the following logic is also useful in some cases.

$('.id_100 option').each(function() {
    if($(this).val() == 'val2') {
        $(this).prop("selected", true);
    }
});