Question

I am using a asp drop down list. According to my requirement I need to set the values of that drop down list through external java script file. How is it possible? I will not use document object to get the drop down Id.

Answer 1

If you can set up the list of option values as a js array then you can use jQuery’s $.each method to build the dropdown like this

HTML

​<select id="drop"></select>​

JQuery

var values = ['test1','test2','test3','test4','test5','test6'​];

​$.each(values,function(i,val){
   $('<option />').text(val).val(val).appendTo('#drop');
});​

Working Fiddle