Selecting a dropdown option from a for loop

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I have following for loop. Which sees if the data value is in the dropdown if so it will show it as selected.

for (var i in data) {
    $("#optionDropdwon option:contains(data[i])").prop("selected", true);
    console.log(data[i])
}

It works fine when I replace data[i] in the :contains() with an actual string i.e "xyz" but when I replace it with data[i] nothing happens. Yet I can see console.log(data[i]) shows me the proper values. I searched Stackoverflow but couldn't find something like what I am doing.

Please let me know where I am making a mistake. Thanks

Olaf Dietsche · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-14 00:01:56Z

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You must construct a proper selector for this to work. In your example, you have only the literal string data[i] in the selector, but not the actual value

$("#optionDropdwon option:contains(" + data[i] + ")").prop("selected", true);

answered Jan 14, 2014 at 0:01

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