What is the best way to add options to a select from an array with jQuery?
What is the best method for adding options to a select from a JSON object using jQuery?
I'm looking for something that I don't need a plugin to do, but would also be interested in the plugins that are out there.
This is what I did:
selectValues = { "1": "test 1", "2": "test 2" };
for (key in selectValues) {
if (typeof (selectValues[key] == 'string') {
$('#mySelect').append('<option value="' + key + '">' + selectValues[key] + '</option>');
}
}
A clean/simple solution:
This is a cleaned up and simplified version of matdumsa's:
$.each(selectValues, function(key, value) {
$('#mySelect')
.append($('<option>', { value : key })
.text(value));
});
Changes from matdumsa's: (1) removed the close tag for the option inside append() and (2) moved the properties/attributes into an map as the second parameter of append().
Answer:
Same as other answers, in jQuery fashion:
$.each(selectValues, function(key, value) {
$('#mySelect')
.append($("<option></option>")
.attr("value",key)
.text(value));
});
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/170986/what-is-the-best-way-to-add-options-to-a-select-from-an-array-with-jquery
