How to Set a Dropdown Option Value by Id

Question

<select id=workTypeSelection>
    <option id="-1">-Select a Work Type-</option>
    <option id="1">Common</option>
    <option id="3">Computer Maintenance</option>
    <option id="5">Facility Maintenance</option>
    <option id="19">Furniture Move</option>
    <option id="85">Global Work Type</option>
    <option id="24">Lease Request</option>
    <option id="21">Move Responsibility</option>
    <option id="20">Purchase Request</option>
    <option id="16">SLA Maintenance</option>
    <option id="60">Test 123</option>
    <option id="72">TEST J</option>
    <option id="73">test jj</option>
    <option id="65">TEST JOS</option>
</select>

How to Select "Test 123" as Currently selected option in The Dropdown list using jquery on page Ready using option id-> 60.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/292615/how-can-i-set-the-value-of-a-dropdownlist-using-jquery — Mahi, Nov 11 '16 at 06:50
`$('select option[id=""]').attr("selected",true)` try this. replace from your id — PSabuwala, Nov 11 '16 at 06:53

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '16 at 06:55

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Try any from below,

$('select option[id="<your_value>"]').attr("selected",true)

$('#selectTagId option[id="<your_value>"]').attr("selected",true)

$('.selectTagClass option[id="<your_value>"]').attr("selected",true)

answered Nov 11 '16 at 06:55

PSabuwala

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can I put a variable name in field, and should it worked with having "" or i need to concate like this: $(.....["+variable+"]...) – Chirag thaker Jun 24 '17 at 06:59
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If you a dynamic id then you need to do $("#selectTagId option[id="+your_id+"]") – PSabuwala Jun 24 '17 at 11:32

How to Set a Dropdown Option Value by Id

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