Question

I have got this far with my coding:

  success: function(data) {
    $.each(data, function(item){
      if (item=="") {
        $(select_element).append($(document.createElement("option")).attr("value",   (item)).html(data[item]));
      } else {
        $(select_element).append($(document.createElement("option")).attr("value",(item)).html(data[item]+" "));
      }

‘item’ is an object with two attributes, description and id. Created select list works basically just find, but it returns the whole object now. Can I modify the createElement function so that id would be the returnable itemValue and description itemLabel? I’m newbie.

Answer 1

According to the given description of the item object, this would be a better approach:

$.each(data, function(idx,item) {
    if (!item.id) {
        $(select_element).append($("<option>").attr("value",item.id).html(item.description));
    } else {
        $(select_element).append($("<option>").attr("value",item.id).html(item.description+" "));
    }
});