Question

How can I, populate a select box based on a variable that will contain data by comma separated values?

Example:

var x = Jenny,John,Stephanie,Marc,Ryan,Jessica

Expected result:

[DROP DOWN BOX]
Jenny
John
Stephanie
Marc
Ryan
Jessica

Answer 1

http://jsfiddle.net/fYN7M/

HTML

<select id="myoptions">

</select>

JavaScript

var x = "Jenny,John,Stephanie,Marc,Ryan,Jessica";

var options = x.split(",");

var select = document.getElementById('myoptions');
for(var i=0; i<options.length; i++)
{
  select.options[i] = new Option(options[i], i);  //new Option("Text", "Value")
}