Question

I need to add javascript or jquery code in order to select option from combobox. There are 25 comboboxes and there value read from database. Please find below code fragment

option which is selected by user needs to be selected. It has to be read from database.

<div class="control-group">
      <label class="control-label">A. Nails are Clean *</label>
      <div class="controls">
        <select name="obs_chart_nails_clean" >
            <option value="Always">Always</option>
            <option value="Sometimes">Sometimes</option>    
            <option value="Rarely">Rarely</option>               
        </select>
      </div>      
    </div>  

Answer 1

If you add id attribute to select

<select name="obs_chart_nails_clean" id="obs_chart_nails_clean">

and add jquery to your page, then

$(document).read(function(){
    $("#obs_chart_nails_clean").val("Rarely");
});

will select third option.

What do you have server-side? You should be able to produce html with correct option already selected.