Populate dropdown by Text using Javascript or jQuery

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Hi Guys,

I have one asp.net dropdown control in popup. Suppose i have 3 options in dropdown like Chair 1, Chair 2 and CHair 3. I want to select dropdown item by text.

Its showing as selected but its still displaying first item not the selected one.

Please help very urgent.

Thanks,
Tiru

Posted 26-Nov-13 19:33pm

Raghava jogu

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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 27-Nov-13 1:59am

Please post the code.

Jenno Richi 27-Nov-13 2:46am

can you please put your code ?

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hi Murali,

Thanks for your reply

what is i and n here ? and how do i pass dropdown value to be selected?

Posted 27-Nov-13 1:02am

Raghava jogu

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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 27-Nov-13 7:18am

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Muralikrishna8811 · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-26T22:47:00

Solution 1

Hi Raghava,

I hope my code can help you out....

JavaScript

$('#DropDownList1').find('option').each(function(i,n){
    if($(n).text()=='Item 5')
    {
        $(n).attr('selected','selected');
    }
    else
    {
        $(n).removeAttr('selected')
    }
});

Posted 26-Nov-13 22:47pm

Muralikrishna8811