Question

I have the following HTML which defines my selector:

<select name="zoom_cat[]" style="margin-left:15px;">
  <option value="-1" selected="selected">All</option>
  <option value="0">News</option>
  <option value="1">Publications</option>
  <option value="2">Services</option>
  <option value="3">Industries</option>
</select>

And I am trying to set the selected option to All (value -1). For some reason this jquery code is having no effect (same option remains selected):

$('input[name="zoom_cat[]"] option[value="-1"]').attr('selected', 'selected');

Answer 1

$('select[name="zoom_cat[]"] option[value="-1"]').attr('selected', 'selected');

instead of input