jquery ui - show selected option on multiselect widget

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I am using a Jquery UI multiselect box.

If I access the box like this

category = $("#edit_category").val();

I see that it has a value already in there. I want this value to be visible from the beginning. I read somewhere that it'd be useful to set the "option tag" of the multiselect from "selected" to "selected"... I'm not sure what this means.

thoughts?

ianace · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 02:46:01Z

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I read somewhere that it'd be useful to set the "option tag" of the multiselect from "selected" to "selected"... I'm not sure what this means.

it means that it would be the default selected option when the page loads

answered Apr 26, 2011 at 2:46

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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ah this helped me!

http://calisza.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/6-jquery-snippets-you-can-use-to-manipulate-select-inputs/#comment-652

2 $('#selectList :selected').text();

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answered Apr 26, 2011 at 2:51

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