Can anyone suggest how I get to change the selected item in a select menu with jQuery – I’ve tried the following but without success. Using this snippet how would I use jQuery to set to value ‘5’ for example (eg Cambridgeshire) as the ‘selected’ value.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#county_id option[value=3]').attr('selected', 'selected');
});
<html>
<select name="county_id" id="county_id">
<option value="1">Bedfordshire</option>
<option value="2">Berkshire</option>
<option value="4">Buckinghamshire</option>
<option value="5">Cambridgeshire</option>
</select>
</html>
You just need to use the val method.