Question

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here:

function onAjaxDone(data) {
    var topicID;

    $('#TopicID')
        .html(data);

    topicID = store.getItem('TopicID');
    if (topicID) {
        $("#TopicID")
            .val(topicID);
        $('option[value="88"]', this).remove();
        $('option[value="99"]', this).remove();
    }
}

I get an error saying “failed strict” and pointing to the lines with “this”. What I want to do is to remove the option lines with a value of 88 and 99 for the select element with id of TopicID. Am I coding this wrong? This was an example given to me but I am not sure why the “this” is there on those two lines.

Answer 1

This should do it:

function onAjaxDone(data) {
    var topicID, selTopic;

    selTopic = $('#TopicID');
    selTopic.html(data);

    topicID = store.getItem('TopicID');
    if (topicID) {
        selTopic.val(topicID);
        $('option[value="88"]', selTopic).remove();
        $('option[value="99"]', selTopic).remove();
        //or
        //selTopic.val(topicID)
        //.find('option[value="88"]').remove().end()
        //.find('option[value="99"]').remove();
    }
}