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How to Get the Value of Selected Option in a Select Box Using jQuery

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Move this topic Cancel. How to dynamically select option in dropdown menu? I want to select a specific option of a select tag: I want to get the selector by the specific name of it i.

But firstly I want to unset the selected option from being selected, i. Leave a comment on Godsbest's reply.

I think I m gonna answer my own question: Using the value worked for me. The others simple didn't, But thanks for your reply! Glad you had it resolved! As you can see, the two that did not work for you work perfectly well: The reset works too, it is just not what I was looking for.

I wanted to completely remove the "selected" attribute from the option. Thanks for the confirmation.

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Glad there's no bug report to file!! How to select and call the onchange event handler. Currently only it selects not raise the events.

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I'd also like to know solution to select an option by jQuery, and have all the events called. Leave a comment on LeCoderDivine's reply. Incorrect syntax on both! Leave a comment on kelsoncm's reply. Discussions Questions Ideas Problems. Change topic type Cancel. Provide the permalink of a topic that is related to this topic. Related Posts Get and then use the selected optio All Forums Recent Posts.