Setting SELECT menu values

[DeepBlerg]

Hi,

I'm trying to set SELECT menu values dynamically in JS.

Normally I would use:

document.getElementById('selectmenu').options[0] = "Option One";

However if I want to set the text and the value, it fails:

document.getElementById('selectmenu').options[0].text = "Option One";
document.getElementById('selectmenu').options[0].value = "1";

Any ideas?

 

[jemminger]

in IE6 and firefox 0.8, your first example fails and the second works properly.


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-jeff

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Absolutely - the second example should work fine in most browsers.

What error are you getting, and in what browser?

Dan

 

[DeepBlerg]

Yeh it works fine, it was a stupid mistake I made in a switch statement. I forgot to put quotes around a case matching a number. I'm stuck in PHP logic ;-)

 

[jemminger]

DeepBlerg,

>> "forgot to put quotes around a case matching a number"

that doesn't sound right either - this works too:

var x = 3;

switch(x) {
	case "foo":
		alert("ooga");
		break;
	case "bar":
		alert("booga");
		break;				
	case 3:
		alert("three");
		break;
}

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-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

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