Question

For some reason I only get to the first option when I alert out below and then it exists my entire function. It never iterates through each option:

    function SelectAlbumOption(iAlbumID, iAlbumDropdownID)
    {
        var dropdownID = '#' + iAlbumDropdownID;

        $(dropdownID).each(function(index, currentOption)
        {
            alert("(currentOption).attr('value'): " + $(currentOption).attr("value"));
            if($(currentOption).attr("value") == iAlbumID)
            {
                alert("matched option");
                $(currentOption).attr("selected", "yes");
                return false;
            }
        });
    }

right before this function above is called, I add options to that select, so they do exist before this function is called.

Answer 1

Are you leaving critical pieces of the code out? Because you haven’t told us whether you invoke SelectAlbumOption multiple times.

Your function takes an ID and does an .each on 1 element ( unique ID ).

Did you mean to do

    var dropdownID = '#' + iAlbumDropdownID;
    $('option', dropdownID).each();

Or

$(dropdownID + ' option').each()