Reputation: 36532
I have a select control, and in a javascript variable I have a text string.
Using jQuery I want to set the selected element of the select control to be the item with the text description I have (as opposed to the value, which I don't have).
I know setting it by value is pretty trivial. e.g.
$("#my-select").val(myVal);
But I'm a bit stumped on doing it via the text description. I guess there must be a way of getting the value out from the text description, but my brain is too Friday afternoon-ed to be able to work it out.
Upvotes: 552
Views: 1170382
Reputation: 49
Try this one ..
$("#my-select").val($("#my-select option:contains('searchText')").val()).change();
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 699
If you are trying to bind select with ID then the following code worked for me.
<select name="0product_id[]" class="groupSelect" id="groupsel_0" onchange="productbuilder.update(this.value,0);">
<option value="0" class="notag" id="id0_0">--Select--</option>
<option class="notag" value="338" id="id0_338" >Dual Promoter Puromycin Expression Plasmid - pSF-CMV-PGK-Puro > £114.00</option>
<option class="notag" value="282" id="id0_282" >EMCV IRES Puromycin Expression Plasmid - pSF-CMV-EMCV-Puro > £114.00</option>
<option class="notag" value="265" id="id0_265" >FMDV IRES Puromycin Expression Plasmid - pSF-CMV-FMDV-Puro > £114.00</option>
<option class="notag" value="101" id="id0_101" >Puromycin Selection Plasmid - pSF-CMV-Ub-Puro AscI > £114.00</option>
<option class="notag" value="105" id="id0_105" >Puromycin Selection SV40 Ori Plasmid - pSF-CMV-Ub-Puro-SV40 Ori SbfI > £114.00</option></select>
AND THIS IS TEH JS CODE
$( document ).ready(function() {
var text = "EMCV IRES Puromycin Expression Plasmid - pSF-CMV-EMCV-Puro > £114.00";
alert(text);
$("#groupsel_0 option").filter(function() {
//may want to use $.trim in here
return $(this).text() == text;
}).prop('selected', true);
});
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 92743
Try
[...mySelect.options].forEach(o=> o.selected = o.text == 'Text C' )
[...mySelect.options].forEach(o=> o.selected = o.text == 'Text C' );
<select id="mySelect">
<option value="A">Text A</option>
<option value="B">Text B</option>
<option value="C">Text C</option>
</select>
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 620
Very fiddly and nothing else seemed to work
$('select[name$="dropdown"]').children().text("Mr").prop("selected", true);
worked for me.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 28441
Try this...to select the option with text myText
$("#my-Select option[text=" + myText +"]").prop("selected", true);
Upvotes: 92
Reputation: 117028
var text1 = 'Two';
$("select option").filter(function() {
//may want to use $.trim in here
return $(this).text() == text1;
}).prop('selected', true);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select>
<option value="0">One</option>
<option value="1">Two</option>
</select>
var text1 = 'Two';
$("select option").filter(function() {
//may want to use $.trim in here
return $(this).text() == text1;
}).attr('selected', true);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select>
<option value="0">One</option>
<option value="1">Two</option>
</select>
Note that while this approach will work in versions that are above 1.6 but less than 1.9, it has been deprecated since 1.6. It will not work in jQuery 1.9+.
val()
should handle both cases.
$('select').val('1'); // selects "Two"
$('select').val('Two'); // also selects "Two"
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select>
<option value="0">One</option>
<option value="1">Two</option>
</select>
Upvotes: 797
Reputation: 1715
Here is very simple way. plz use it
$("#free").val("y").change();
Upvotes: 6
Reputation: 1623
I do it on this way (jQuery 1.9.1)
$("#my-select").val("Dutch").change();
Note: don't forget the change(), I had to search to long because of that :)
Upvotes: 54
Reputation: 39
Heres an easy option. Just set your list option then set its text as selected value:
$("#ddlScheduleFrequency option").selected(text("Select One..."));
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 491
This accepted answer does not seem correct, while .val('newValue') is correct for the function, trying to retrieve a select by its name does not work for me, I had to use the id and classname to get my element
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 99
Easiest way with 1.7+ is:
$("#myDropDown option:text=" + myText +"").attr("selected", "selected");
1.9+
$("#myDropDown option:text=" + myText +"").prop("selected", "selected");
Tested and works.
Upvotes: 6
Reputation: 328
$('#theYear').on('change', function () {
FY = $(this).find('option:selected').text();
$('#theFolders').each(function () {
$('option:not(:contains(' + FY + '))', this).hide();
});
$('#theFolders').val(0);
});
$('#theYear').on('mousedown', function () {
$('#theFolders option').show().find('option:contains("Select")', this).attr('selected', 'selected');
});
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 6836
This line worked:
$("#myDropDown option:contains(myText)").attr('selected', true);
Upvotes: 16
Reputation: 3314
I know this is an old post, but I couldn't get it to select by text using jQuery 1.10.3 and the solutions above. I ended up using the following code (variation of spoulson's solution):
var textToSelect = "Hello World";
$("#myDropDown option").each(function (a, b) {
if ($(this).html() == textToSelect ) $(this).attr("selected", "selected");
});
Hope it helps someone.
Upvotes: 12
Reputation: 3612
I found that by using attr
you would end up with multiple options selected when you didn't want to - solution is to use prop
:
$("#myDropDown option:text=" + myText +"").prop("selected", "selected");
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 2122
Just on a side note. My selected value was not being set. And i had search all over the net. Actually i had to select a value after a call back from a web service, because i was getting data from it.
$("#SelectMonth option[value=" + DataFromWebService + "]").attr('selected', 'selected');
$("#SelectMonth").selectmenu('refresh', true);
So the refresh of the selector was was the only thing that i was missing.
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 3311
To avoid all jQuery version complications, I honestly recommend using one of these really simple javascript functions...
function setSelectByValue(eID,val)
{ //Loop through sequentially//
var ele=document.getElementById(eID);
for(var ii=0; ii<ele.length; ii++)
if(ele.options[ii].value==val) { //Found!
ele.options[ii].selected=true;
return true;
}
return false;
}
function setSelectByText(eID,text)
{ //Loop through sequentially//
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;
}
Upvotes: 15
Reputation: 17642
take a look at the jquery selectedbox plugin
selectOptions(value[, clear]):
Select options by value, using a string as the parameter $("#myselect2").selectOptions("Value 1");
, or a regular expression $("#myselect2").selectOptions(/^val/i);
.
You can also clear already selected options: $("#myselect2").selectOptions("Value 2", true);
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 801
I had a problem with the examples above, and the problem was caused by the fact that my select box values are prefilled with fixed length strings of 6 characters, but the parameter being passed in wasn't fixed length.
I have an rpad function which will right pad a string, to the length specified, and with the specified character. So, after padding the parameter it works.
$('#wsWorkCenter').val(rpad(wsWorkCenter, 6, ' '));
function rpad(pStr, pLen, pPadStr) {
if (pPadStr == '') {pPadStr == ' '};
while (pStr.length < pLen)
pStr = pStr + pPadStr;
return pStr;
}
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 38432
$("#Test").find("option:contains('two')").each(function(){
if( $(this).text() == 'two' ) {
$(this).attr("selected","selected");
}
});
The if statement does a exact match with "two" and "two three" will not be matched
Upvotes: 7
Reputation: 125538
$("#myselect option:contains('YourTextHere')").val();
will return the value of the first option containing your text description. Tested this and works.
Upvotes: 23
Reputation: 41853
Get the children of the select box; loop through them; when you have found the one you want, set it as the selected option; return false to stop looping.
Upvotes: -1
Reputation: 21601
I haven't tested this, but this might work for you.
$("select#my-select option")
.each(function() { this.selected = (this.text == myVal); });
Upvotes: 148