Question

i have a dropdown in the header and whatever the value is selected in the header should reflect the same in the detail dropdown, how should i do that? any leads?

$("#myddl").change(function()
{ 
     //update all the dropdown list...  
});

http://jsfiddle.net/abuhamzah/4QvfP/

  Header:
    <br />
    <select id="myddl" name="myddl">
        <option value="1">One</option>
        <option value="2">Twooo</option>
        <option value="3">Three</option>
    </select>
    <p>Detail</p>
        <br />
    <select id="Select1" name="myddl">
        <option value="1">One</option>
        <option value="2">Twooo</option>
        <option value="3">Three</option>
    </select>
    <br />
    <select id="Select2" name="myddl">
        <option value="1">One</option>
        <option value="2">Twooo</option>
        <option value="3">Three</option>
    </select>
    <br />
    <select id="Select3" name="myddl">
        <option value="1">One</option>
        <option value="2">Twooo</option>
        <option value="3">Three</option>
    </select>
    <br />
    <select id="Select4" name="myddl">
        <option value="1">One</option>
        <option value="2">Twooo</option>
        <option value="3">Three</option>
    </select>
    <br />
    <select id="Select5" name="myddl">
        <option value="1">One</option>
        <option value="2">Twooo</option>
        <option value="3">Three</option>
    </select>

Answer 1

Something along these lines will work. It wraps your “Detail” selects in a container to make selection somewhat simpler.

http://jsfiddle.net/qMXSR/2/

$("#myddl").change(function()
{ 
     $('.detail').find('select').val($(this).val());
});​