Question

I have a basic question regarding jQuery.

I have a static time-selection box IE:

<select name="startTime" class="startTime">
  <option value="00:00:00">12:00am</option>
  <option value="00:15:00">12:15am</option>
  <option value="00:30:00">12:30am</option>
  <option value="00:45:00">12:45am</option>
  etc...
</select>

So when I run my MySQL Query I pull a date from the database, and I want to make a specific time frame selected

my database returns a value such as, “00:30:00” date(H:i:s)
So I need to make “00:30:00” the selected value with jQuery, and i’m not exactly sure how to make that happen.

I thought it was something like this:

$(".startTime").val('<?php echo $timeStart; ?>');

Perhaps someone could shed some light.

Answer 1

First you should use the element tag name in the selector for efficiency

 $("select.startTime")

Second you should check what the value of <?php echo $timeStart; ?> is, because the following should work.

 $("select.startTime").val('<?php echo $timeStart; ?>');