Question

I am trying to save an options tag value to local storage. After saving its value to local storage I would like to be able to set the options tag to the option the user selected. I have tried the follow, but I am only able to save the value. I have trouble changing the select tag to the users selected value.

<select name="fruit" id="fruit">
    <option value="1">Apple</option>
    <option value="2">Guava</option>
    <option value="3">Mango</option>
    <option value="4">Grapes</option>
</select>

document.getElementById("fruit").onchange = function() {
 localStorage.setItem('fruit', document.getElementById("fruit").value);
}

if (localStorage.getItem('fruit') === "Guava") {
 document.getElementById("fruit").setAttribute('Selected', 'Guava');
}

Answer 1

Because your option values are integers, in this case, I would check against the value of the option, not the textual contents of the option element.

Here’s a solution that works if you have incremental numerical option values, starting from zero:

DEMO

HTML:

<select name="fruit" id="fruit">
    <option value="0">Apple</option>
    <option value="1">Guava</option>
    <option value="2">Mango</option>
    <option value="3">Grapes</option>
</select>

And your JS would be:

document.getElementById("fruit").onchange = function() {
    localStorage.setItem('fruit', document.getElementById("fruit").value);
}

if (localStorage.getItem('fruit')) {
    document.getElementById("fruit").options[localStorage.getItem('fruit')].selected = true;
}​