How do you preselect an option in a multiple select html tag using jquery’s val()?
What I mean by this is that say you have a multiselect component and you want some of the values to be preselected?
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How do you preselect an option in a multiple select html tag using jquery’s val()?
What I mean by this is that say you have a multiselect component and you want some of the values to be preselected?
Assuming I’ve understood your question correctly, you can pass an array of values to the
.val()method:Here’s a working example.