jQuery dropdown value change depending on the variable

Question

I have a dropdown

<select class="form-control" id="defectstatus" name="defectstatus">
   <option selected="selected" value="Pick One">Select Defect Status</option>
   <option value="New">New</option>
   <option value="Needs more info">Needs more info</option>

Now I have a variable

a=$("#answer").html();
alert(a);

For which the value of a is

New

What I want to do is something like this

$("#defectstatus").val(a);

Then my dropdown defectstatus will change default selected to New instead of Pick One

Whatever you have seems to work fine : jsfiddle.net/DinoMyte/czbv0hag . Whats the issue ? — DinoMyte
– DinoMyte, Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 1:10

Mohamed-Yousef · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-16 01:10:41Z

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As I understand you trying to select the option with the value is (New) you can use

$("#defectstatus > option[value='"+ a +"']").prop('selected' , true);

answered Dec 16, 2015 at 1:10

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Chong Over a year ago

This is exactly what I want, but still it doesn't work.The dropdown selected doesn't change

Mohamed-Yousef Over a year ago

@Chong maybe you need to trim the html() to avoid left and right white spaces .. you can use a=$.trim($("#answer").html());

dieuvn3b · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-16 01:07:30Z

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You try change $("#answer").text(); instead of $("#answer").html();

answered Dec 16, 2015 at 1:07

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Lucas · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-16 01:25:12Z

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What you have seems like it works, but I imagine it's possible that your code is executing before the HTML has loaded, and is therefore not finding #answer.

You can wrap your code in $(function(){/*code*/}); to make sure it executes when the document is ready.

(Live example: http://plnkr.co/edit/PMOraMzVsMEg2z3FOeP5?p=preview)

answered Dec 16, 2015 at 1:25

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