Question

I am using jquery to populate dropdownlist, the codes are like below:

 var myOptions = {  
   val1 : 'text1',   
   val2 : 'text2',
   val3 : '' 
    };
 $.each(myOptions, function(val, text) {  
   $('#mySelect').append( $('<option></option>').val(val).html(text)    
);

 });

now I have populate 3 items in my dropdown, and now I want to set my dropdownlist selected value with ”, just like:

$("#mySelect option contain('')").attr(selected,true).

Actually, this will get all 3 items so that it will not set ” as selected value, is there any way that i can do this?

Answer 1

$("#mySelect option[value='']").attr('selected', true)