Question

I have 2 buttons that fire the same form which appears over the page. I would like a dropdown option to change depending on which button is fired.

What am I doing wrong?

var settings = $(this).attr('rel');
$("select[@name='menu'] option[@value='"+settings+"']").attr("selected","selected");

Error

Error: uncaught exception: Syntax error, unrecognized expression:[@value=’footer’]

Answer 1

You can just do this:

$("select[name='menu']").val($(this).attr('rel'));

Using .val() is a much quicker way…but your error is occuring because the @ was removed from attribute selectors in jQuery 1.3, it’s just [name='menu'] and [value='myValue'] now.