Check if option is selected with jQuery if not select a default

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Using jQuery  how do you check if there is an option selected in a select menu  and if not  assign one of the options as selected    The select is generated with a maze of PHP functions in an app I just inherited  so this is a quick fix while I get my head around those

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I was just looking for something similar and found this:

$('.mySelect:not(:has(option[selected])) option[value="2"]').attr('selected', true);

This finds all select menus in the class that don't already have an option selected, and selects the default option ("2" in this case).

I tried using :selected instead of [selected], but that didn't work because something is always selected, even if nothing has the attribute

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lencioni s answer is what I d recommend   You can change the selector for the option    mySelect option last   to select the option with a specific value using   mySelect option value  yourDefaultValue      More on selectors   If you re working extensively with select lists on the client check out this plugin  http   www texotela co uk code jquery select    Take a look the source if you want to see some more examples of working with select lists

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No need to use jQuery for this   var foo   document getElementById  yourSelect    if  foo       if  foo selectedIndex    null              foo selectedIndex   0

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I already came across the texotela plugin mentioned  which let me solve it like this     document  ready function        if       context   selectedValues      false            context   selectOptions  71

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This question is old and has a lot of views  so I ll just throw some stuff out there that will help some people I m sure   To check if a select element has any selected items   if      mySelect option selected   length  gt  0    alert  has a selected item        or to check if a select has nothing selected   if      mySelect option selected   length    0    alert  nothing selected        or if you re in a loop of some sort and want to check if the current element is selected       mySelect option   each function         if    this  is   selected                 to check if an element is not selected while in a loop       mySelect option   each function         if    this  not   selected                 These are some of the ways to do this  jQuery has many different ways of accomplishing the same thing  so you usually just choose which one appears to be the most efficient

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lt script type  text javascript  gt     document  ready function       if       mySelect option selected   length         mySelect   val  3          lt  script gt

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You guys are doing way too much for selecting  Just select by value       mySelect   val  3

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select box id   children   1  selected   This is another way of checking an option is selected or not in jquery  This will return Boolean  True or False     1  is index of select box option

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Here is my function changing the selected option  It works for jQuery 1 3 2  function selectOption select id  option val              select id   option selected   removeAttr  selected              select id   option value   option val      attr  selected   selected

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Change event on the select box to fire and once it does then just pull the id attribute of the selected option  -      type   change function      var id     this  find  option selected   attr  id       switch  id       case  trade buy max            do something here       break

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Look at the selectedIndex of the select element  BTW  that s a plain ol  DOM thing  not JQuery-specific

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Easy  The default should be the first option  Done  That would lead you to unobtrusive JavaScript  because JavaScript isn t needed     Unobtrusive JavaScript

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option value   2     attr  selected    selected       2 for example  add   for every option

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If you need to explicitly check each option to see if any have the  selected  attribute you can do this  Otherwise using option selected you ll get the value for the first default option   var viewport selected   false            viewport option   each function         if    this  attr  selected       selected             viewport selected   true

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While I m not sure about exactly what you want to accomplish  this bit of code worked for me    lt select id  mySelect  multiple  multiple  gt     lt option value  1  gt First lt  option gt     lt option value  2  gt Second lt  option gt     lt option value  3  gt Third lt  option gt     lt option value  4  gt Fourth lt  option gt   lt  select gt    lt script type  text javascript  gt     document  ready function       if       mySelect option selected   length            mySelect option value  3     attr  selected    selected             lt  script gt

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I found a good way to check  if option is selected and select a default when it isn t       if      some select option selected  selected     val                here code if it HAS NOT selected value           for exaple adding the first value as  placeholder              some select option first-child   before   lt option disabled selected gt Wybierz  lt  option gt             If  some select has t default selected option then  val   is undefined

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This was a quick script I found that worked     Result is assigned to a label       Result   html    option selected   text

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if       select   find  option selected   length

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