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I have been using the following code (with jQuery v1.4.2) to set the 'selected' attribute of a select list based on its 'text' description rather than its 'value':
$("#my-Select option[text=" + myText +"]").attr("selected","selected") ;
This code worked fine, until I noticed one select list on which it failed, depending on the text that was being matched. After some hair-pulling I realized that it was failing only in cases where the text was a single word (no spaces, no non-alpha characters). (All of my previous uses of this code had worked fine with select lists comprised solely of multi-word chemical names.)
For example, within the one select list, it worked fine with:
pharbitic acid
25-D-spirosta-3,5-diene
pogostol (#Pogostemon#)
It failed with:
glucose
adenine
I have tried any way I could think of to surround the text variable with quotes (both single and double) to no avail. (But why should a single word need quotes when a two word phrase does not?)
I have tried hard coding the text in there and had the same result.
This works:
$("#constituent option[text=#a#-allocryptopine]").attr('selected', 'selected');
This works:
$("#constituent option[text=5-O-methylrisanrinol]").attr('selected', 'selected');
This did not work:
$("#constituent option[text=adenine]").attr('selected', 'selected');
I tried hard coding quotes. This did not work:
$("#constituent option[text='glucose']").attr('selected', 'selected');
I could not get hard coded quotes (single or double) to work with any text at all.
It's worth noting that quotes are acceptable when using the 'value' attribute. E.g., both of these work fine:
$("#constituent option[value='3']").attr('selected', 'selected');
$("#constituent option[value=3]").attr('selected', 'selected');
Below is some code to demonstrate the problem. Two select lists, the first of which is comprised of simple words, the second of two word phrases. When the page loads it tries to set the value of each select list. The jQuery code works for the second list but not the first. (I tried putting a space in 'monkey' to get 'mon key' and it worked!)
A working demo of the code below is here.
I would greatly appreciate any insight into what I am doing wrong here. Or even an alternative selector syntax for using the 'text' attribute.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" ".dtd">
<html xmlns="; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var text1 = 'Monkey';
$("#mySelect1 option[text=" + text1 + "]").attr('selected', 'selected');
var text2 = 'Mushroom pie';
$("#mySelect2 option[text=" + text2 + "]").attr('selected', 'selected');
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<select id="mySelect1">
<option></option>
<option>Banana</option>
<option>Monkey</option>
<option>Fritter</option>
</select>
<select id="mySelect2">
<option></option>
<option>Cream cheese</option>
<option>Mushroom pie</option>
<option>French toast</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
I have been using the following code (with jQuery v1.4.2) to set the 'selected' attribute of a select list based on its 'text' description rather than its 'value':
$("#my-Select option[text=" + myText +"]").attr("selected","selected") ;
This code worked fine, until I noticed one select list on which it failed, depending on the text that was being matched. After some hair-pulling I realized that it was failing only in cases where the text was a single word (no spaces, no non-alpha characters). (All of my previous uses of this code had worked fine with select lists comprised solely of multi-word chemical names.)
For example, within the one select list, it worked fine with:
pharbitic acid
25-D-spirosta-3,5-diene
pogostol (#Pogostemon#)
It failed with:
glucose
adenine
I have tried any way I could think of to surround the text variable with quotes (both single and double) to no avail. (But why should a single word need quotes when a two word phrase does not?)
I have tried hard coding the text in there and had the same result.
This works:
$("#constituent option[text=#a#-allocryptopine]").attr('selected', 'selected');
This works:
$("#constituent option[text=5-O-methylrisanrinol]").attr('selected', 'selected');
This did not work:
$("#constituent option[text=adenine]").attr('selected', 'selected');
I tried hard coding quotes. This did not work:
$("#constituent option[text='glucose']").attr('selected', 'selected');
I could not get hard coded quotes (single or double) to work with any text at all.
It's worth noting that quotes are acceptable when using the 'value' attribute. E.g., both of these work fine:
$("#constituent option[value='3']").attr('selected', 'selected');
$("#constituent option[value=3]").attr('selected', 'selected');
Below is some code to demonstrate the problem. Two select lists, the first of which is comprised of simple words, the second of two word phrases. When the page loads it tries to set the value of each select list. The jQuery code works for the second list but not the first. (I tried putting a space in 'monkey' to get 'mon key' and it worked!)
A working demo of the code below is here.
I would greatly appreciate any insight into what I am doing wrong here. Or even an alternative selector syntax for using the 'text' attribute.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var text1 = 'Monkey';
$("#mySelect1 option[text=" + text1 + "]").attr('selected', 'selected');
var text2 = 'Mushroom pie';
$("#mySelect2 option[text=" + text2 + "]").attr('selected', 'selected');
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<select id="mySelect1">
<option></option>
<option>Banana</option>
<option>Monkey</option>
<option>Fritter</option>
</select>
<select id="mySelect2">
<option></option>
<option>Cream cheese</option>
<option>Mushroom pie</option>
<option>French toast</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
- Is there a reason you cannot simply set the selected index of the list? Selecting based on the text value isn't really the best way to do this. – casablanca Commented Sep 5, 2010 at 0:17
- I get your point, but I don't know the index value at the time. Basically I build a table of data from a database, the user can edit a row by clicking on it and a number of select lists below are filled with the values from the table (this is what I use the code above for). Different values can be selected from one or more lists, then the database and table are updated using $.ajax. The select list index values are id values from the database tables. In theory I could store these invisibly in the table along with the text descriptions but I am trying to cut down on overhead where possible. – Stuart Allen Commented Sep 5, 2010 at 0:30
12 Answers
Reset to default 118When an <option> isn't given a value="", the text becomes its value, so you can just use .val() on the <select> to set by value, like this:
var text1 = 'Monkey';
$("#mySelect1").val(text1);
var text2 = 'Mushroom pie';
$("#mySelect2").val(text2);
You can test it out here, if the example is not what you're after and they actually have a value, use the <option> element's .text property to .filter(), like this:
var text1 = 'Monkey';
$("#mySelect1 option").filter(function() {
return this.text == text1;
}).attr('selected', true);
var text2 = 'Mushroom pie';
$("#mySelect2 option").filter(function() {
return this.text == text2;
}).attr('selected', true);
You can test that version here.
$("#my-select option:contains(" + myText +")").attr("selected", true);
This returns the first option containing your text description.
try this:
$("#mySelect1").find("option[text=" + text1 + "]").attr("selected", true);
Using the filter() function seems to work in your test cases (tested in Firefox). The selector would look like this:
$('#mySelect1 option').filter(function () {
return $(this).text() === 'Banana';
});
I usually use:
$("#my-Select option[text='" + myText +"']").attr("selected","selected") ;
In case someone google for this, the solutions above didn't work for me so i ended using "pure" javascript
document.getElementById("The id of the element").value = "The value"
And that would set the value and make the current value selected in the combo box. Tested in firefox.
it was easier than keep googling a solution for jQuery
The following works for text entries both with and without spaces:
$("#mySelect1").find("option[text=" + text1 + "]").attr("selected", true);
I tried a few of these things until I got one to work in both Firefox and IE. This is what I came up with.
$("#my-Select").val($("#my-Select" + " option").filter(function() { return this.text == myText }).val());
another way of writing it in a more readable fasion:
var valofText = $("#my-Select" + " option").filter(function() {
return this.text == myText
}).val();
$(ElementID).val(valofText);
Pseudocode:
$("#my-Select").val( getValOfText( myText ) );
We can do it by searching the text in options of dropdown list and then by setting selected attribute to true.
This code is run in every environment.
$("#numbers option:contains(" + inputText + ")").attr('selected', 'selected');
setSelectedByText:function(eID,text) {
var ele=document.getElementById(eID);
for(var ii=0; ii<ele.length; ii++)
if(ele.options[ii].text==text) { //Found!
ele.options[ii].selected=true;
return true;
}
return false;
},
If you want to selected value on drop-down text bases so you should use below changes: Here below is example and country name is dynamic:
<select id="selectcountry">
<option value="1">India</option>
<option value="2">Ireland</option>
</select>
<script>
var country_name ='India'
$('#selectcountry').find('option:contains("' + country_name + '")').attr('selected', 'selected');
</script>
Effective and efficient way to set selected value in dropdown using your text value
$("#id option").filter(function () {
//may want to use $.trim in here
return $(this).text() == customerName.trim();
}).prop('selected', true);
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