Question

I am making a jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap app. I am dynamically loading a select menu’s options. I want the first option to be the default “value” of my select menu. After appending, I have all my options, but none of them is already chosen. I tried refreshing and setting value attribute, but it doesn’t work. Here is my javascript:

function customerList(data)
{
  var html ='';
  console.log('Start');
  $.each(data, function(key, value){
    html += '<option value="'+ data[key].id + '">' + data[key].label + '</option>';
    $('#customer').append($(html));
    html='';
  });
  $('#customer').selectmenu();
}

Answer 1

Setting

$('#customer').val("optionValue")

will work