Question

Hi i am developing a web app.I am retrieving options of the select box from database and i want to write these records to selectbox.My page structure is like that:

main.php=>there is a selectbox in this page <select id="my_select"></select>

retrieve_data.php=>i make a ajax call to this page and this page gets the phone numbers from the db and responses the data to main.php.

i get the data from the retrieve_data.php but when wanted to write these response to selectbox it fails.only empty selectbox appears.

My response like his:<option>blabla</option>……

and i wrote it like this: $("#my_select").html(response);

i alerted the response before writing in to selectbox and it alerts right options but when i tried to write them into selectbox it fails.can anyone help me thanks for advance…

Answer 1

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that the response is coming back in the form of a single member array. That would explain why the alert() shows the response, but it is not being inserted.

So, try this:

$("#my_select").html( response.join('') );

EDIT:

<option> tags in output were misspelled.