I have a multiselect on which I want to select some options on page load. The options will be selected using jQuery or javascript according to values of the options. Those values are stored in a variable as a string - exmaple below. What would be the logic to select those options?

var values = "1,3,5";

I have a multiselect on which I want to select some options on page load. The options will be selected using jQuery or javascript according to values of the options. Those values are stored in a variable as a string - exmaple below. What would be the logic to select those options?

var values = "1,3,5";

• javascript
• jquery

1 Answer 1

here is the example code:

var items = "1,3,5";
$.each(items.split(','), function(idx, val) {
    $("select option[value='"+val+"']").attr("selected", "selected");
});

and here's a working example: http://jsfiddle/ftte4/