Adding options to a <select> using jQuery?
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What's the easiest way to add an option to a dropdown using jQuery?
Will this work?
$("#mySelect").append('<option value=1>My option</option>');
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
Personally, I prefer this syntax for appending options:
$('#mySelect').append($('<option>', {
value: 1,
text: 'My option'
}));
If you're adding options from a collection of items, you can do the following:
$.each(items, function (i, item) {
$('#mySelect').append($('<option>', {
value: item.value,
text : item.text
}));
});
Solution 2 - Javascript
This did NOT work in IE8 (yet did in FF):
$("#selectList").append(new Option("option text", "value"));
This DID work:
var o = new Option("option text", "value");
/// jquerify the DOM object 'o' so we can use the html method
$(o).html("option text");
$("#selectList").append(o);
Solution 3 - Javascript
You can add option using following syntax, Also you can visit to way handle option in jQuery for more details.
> 1. $('#select').append($('<option>', {value:1, text:'One'}));
>
> 2. $('#select').append('<option value="1">One</option>');
>
> 3. var option = new Option(text, value); $('#select').append($(option));
Solution 4 - Javascript
If the option name or value is dynamic, you won't want to have to worry about escaping special characters in it; in this you might prefer simple DOM methods:
var s= document.getElementById('mySelect');
s.options[s.options.length]= new Option('My option', '1');
Solution 5 - Javascript
Option 1-
You can try this-
$('#selectID').append($('<option>',
{
value: value_variable,
text : text_variable
}));
Like this-
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
$('#mySelect').append($('<option>',
{
value: i,
text : "Option "+i
}));
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select id='mySelect'></select>
Option 2-
Or try this-
$('#selectID').append( '<option value="'+value_variable+'">'+text_variable+'</option>' );
Like this-
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
$('#mySelect').append( '<option value="'+i+'">'+'Option '+i+'</option>' );
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select id='mySelect'></select>
Solution 6 - Javascript
This is very simple:
$('#select_id').append('<option value="five" selected="selected">Five</option>');
or
$('#select_id').append($('<option>', {
value: 1,
text: 'One'
}));
Solution 7 - Javascript
That works well.
If adding more than one option element, I'd recommend performing the append once as opposed to performing an append on each element.
Solution 8 - Javascript
for whatever reason doing $("#myselect").append(new Option("text", "text")); isn't working for me in IE7+
I had to use $("#myselect").html("<option value='text'>text</option>");
Solution 9 - Javascript
To help performance you should try to only alter the DOM once, even more so if you are adding many options.
var html = '';
for (var i = 0, len = data.length; i < len; ++i) {
html.join('<option value="' + data[i]['value'] + '">' + data[i]['label'] + '</option>');
}
$('#select').append(html);
Solution 10 - Javascript
Why not simply?
$('<option/>')
.val(optionVal)
.text('some option')
.appendTo('#mySelect')
Solution 11 - Javascript
$('#mySelect').empty().append('<option value=1>My option</option>').selectmenu('refresh');
Solution 12 - Javascript
I like to use non jquery approach:
mySelect.add(new Option('My option', 1));
Solution 13 - Javascript
var select = $('#myselect');
var newOptions = {
'red' : 'Red',
'blue' : 'Blue',
'green' : 'Green',
'yellow' : 'Yellow'
};
$('option', select).remove();
$.each(newOptions, function(text, key) {
var option = new Option(key, text);
select.append($(option));
});
Solution 14 - Javascript
You can add options dynamically into dropdown as shown in below example. Here in this example I have taken array data and binded those array value to dropdown as shown in output screenshot
Output:
var resultData=["Mumbai","Delhi","Chennai","Goa"]
$(document).ready(function(){
var myselect = $('<select>');
$.each(resultData, function(index, key) {
myselect.append( $('<option></option>').val(key).html(key) );
});
$('#selectCity').append(myselect.html());
});
<script src="https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.2.1.min.js">
</script>
<select id="selectCity">
</select>
Solution 15 - Javascript
Not mentioned in any answer but useful is the case where you want that option to be also selected, you can add:
var o = new Option("option text", "value");
o.selected=true;
$("#mySelect").append(o);
Solution 16 - Javascript
If you want to insert the new option at a specific index in the select:
$("#my_select option").eq(2).before($('<option>', {
value: 'New Item',
text: 'New Item'
}));
This will insert the "New Item" as the 3rd item in the select.
Solution 17 - Javascript
There are two ways. You can use either of these two.
First:
$('#waterTransportationFrom').append('<option value="select" selected="selected">Select From Dropdown List</option>');
Second:
$.each(dataCollecton, function(val, text) {
options.append($('<option></option>').val(text.route).html(text.route));
});
Solution 18 - Javascript
You can append and set the Value attribute with text:
$("#id").append($('<option></option>').attr("value", '').text(''));
$("#id").append($('<option></option>').attr("value", '4').text('Financial Institutions'));
Solution 19 - Javascript
> How about this
var numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
var option = '';
for (var i=0;i<numbers.length;i++){
option += '<option value="'+ numbers[i] + '">' + numbers[i] + '</option>';
}
$('#items').append(option);
Solution 20 - Javascript
if u have optgroup inside select, u got error in DOM.
I think a best way:
$("#select option:last").after($('<option value="1">my option</option>'));
Solution 21 - Javascript
We found some problem when you append option and use jquery validate. You must click one item in select multiple list. You will add this code to handle:
$("#phonelist").append("<option value='"+ 'yournewvalue' +"' >"+ 'yournewvalue' +"</option>");
$("#phonelist option:selected").removeAttr("selected"); // add to remove lase selected
$('#phonelist option[value=' + 'yournewvalue' + ']').attr('selected', true); //add new selected
Solution 22 - Javascript
$('#select_id').append($('<option>',{ value: v, text: t }));
Solution 23 - Javascript
This is just a quick points for best performance
always when you are dealing with many options, build a big string and then add it to the 'select' for best performance
f.g.
var $mySelect = $('#mySelect'); var str = '';
$.each(items, function (i, item) {
// IMPORTANT: no selectors inside the loop (for the best performance)
str += "<option value='" + item.value + "'> " + item.text + "</option>";
});
// you built a big string
$mySelect.html(str); // <-- here you add the big string with a lot of options into the selector.
$mySelect.multiSelect('refresh');
Even faster
var str = "";
for(var i; i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
str += "<option value='" + item[i].value + "'> " + item[i].text + "</option>";
}
$mySelect.html(str);
$mySelect.multiSelect('refresh');
Solution 24 - Javascript
This is the way i did it, with a button to add each select tag.
$(document).on("click","#button",function() {
$('#id_table_AddTransactions').append('<option></option>')
}
Solution 25 - Javascript
$(function () {
var option = $("<option></option>");
option.text("Display text");
option.val("1");
$("#Select1").append(option);
});
If you getting data from some object, then just forward that object to function...
$(function (product) {
var option = $("<option></option>");
option.text(product.Name);
option.val(product.Id);
$("#Select1").append(option);
});
Name and Id are names of object properties...so you can call them whatever you like...And ofcourse if you have Array...you want to build custom function with for loop...and then just call that function in document ready...Cheers
Solution 26 - Javascript
You can do this in ES6:
$.each(json, (i, val) => {
$('.js-country-of-birth').append(`<option value="${val.country_code}"> ${val.country} </option>`);
});
Solution 27 - Javascript
Based on dule's answer for appending a collection of items, a one-liner for...in will also work wonders:
let cities = {'ny':'New York','ld':'London','db':'Dubai','pk':'Beijing','tk':'Tokyo','nd':'New Delhi'};
for(let c in cities){$('#selectCity').append($('<option>',{value: c,text: cities[c]}))}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select id="selectCity"></select>
Both object values and indexes are assigned to the options. This solution works even in the old jQuery (v1.4)!
Solution 28 - Javascript
If someone comes here looking for a way to add options with data properties
Using attr
var option = $('<option>', { value: 'the_value', text: 'some text' }).attr('family', model.family);
Using data - version added 1.2.3
var option = $('<option>', { value: 'the_value', text: 'some text' }).data('misc', 'misc-value);
Solution 29 - Javascript
Try
mySelect.innerHTML+= '<option value=1>My option</option>';
btn.onclick= _=> mySelect.innerHTML+= `<option selected>${+new Date}</option>`
<button id="btn">Add option</button>
<select id="mySelect"></select>
Solution 30 - Javascript
U can try below code to append to option
<select id="mySelect"></select>
<script>
$("#mySelect").append($("<option></option>").val("1").html("My enter code hereoption"));
</script>
Solution 31 - Javascript
> Just by single line
$.each(result, function (k,v) {
**if(k == selectedMonthNumber) var selectedMonth = 'selected'; else var selectedMonth = '';**
$("#periodMonth").append($('<option>', {
value: k,
text: v,
**selected: selectedMonth**
}));
})