Clear dropdownlist with JQuery

I wrote this little function to fill a drop down list with data from the server.

function fillDropDown(url, dropdown) {
    $.ajax({
        url: url,
        dataType: "json"
    }).done(function (data) {
        // Clear drop down list
        $(dropdown).find("option").remove(); <<<<<< Issue here
        // Fill drop down list with new data
        $(data).each(function () {
            // Create option
            var $option = $("<option />");
            // Add value and text to option
            $option.attr("value", this.value).text(this.text);
            // Add option to drop down list
            $(dropdown).append($option);
        });
    });
}

I can then call the function in this way:

fillDropDown("/someurl/getdata", $("#dropdownbox1"))

Everything is working perfectly, except for the one line where I'm clearing old data from the drop down list. What am I doing wrong?

Any tips that might help to improve this code are also highly appreciated.

Just use .empty():

// snip...
}).done(function (data) {
    // Clear drop down list
    $(dropdown).empty(); // <<<<<< No more issue here
    // Fill drop down list with new data
    $(data).each(function () {
        // snip...
        

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There's also a more concise way to build up the options:

// snip...
$(data).each(function () {
    $("<option />", {
        val: this.value,
        text: this.text
    }).appendTo(dropdown);
});

I tried both .empty() as well as .remove() for my dropdown and both were slow. Since I had almost 4,000 options there.

I used .html("") which is much faster in my condition.
Which is below

  $(dropdown).html("");

<select id="ddlvalue" name="ddlvaluename">
<option value='0' disabled selected>Select Value</option>
<option value='1' >Value 1</option>
<option value='2' >Value 2</option>
</select>

<input type="submit" id="btn_submit" value="click me"/>



<script>
$('#btn_submit').on('click',function(){
      $('#ddlvalue').val(0);
});
</script>
   

How about storing the new options in a variable, and then using .html(variable) to replace the data in the container?