jquery.popSelectOptions

A simple jquery plugin to populate a select element(s) with options from an array. It takes 2 parameters:

1. options: An array of dictionaries, storing the value of each option tag, and the label to display. Default: [{'value': '-', 'label': 'Default option'}]
2. default: The position in the options array to use as the default item. Default: 0

Prerequisites

jquery 2.0.1

Set up

Install the plugin, and use the following source code as an example. Basic use (using the default syntax), more examples can be found in the demo folder.

HTML

<div class="form-row my-2">     <div class="form-group col-md-4">         <label for="distance">Distance</label>     </div>     <div class="form-group col-md-8">         <select id="distance" class="form-control"></select>     </div> </div> 

javascript

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-FgpCb/KJQlLNfOu91ta32o/NMZxltwRo8QtmkMRdAu8=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="../dist/jquery.popSelectOptions.min.js"></script> <script>     var distances = [         {'value': '1609.34', 'label': 'Mile(s)'},         {'value': '1000', 'label': 'Kilometre(s)'},         {'value': '1', 'label': 'Metre(s)'},         {'value': '0.9144', 'label': 'Yard(s)'},         {'value': '0.3048', 'label': 'Feet'}     ];     $(function() {         $('#distance').popSelectOptions({'options': distances, 'default':2});     }) </script> 

Examples

View the examples in the demo folder.

Author

• Gareth Cadwaladr - Initial work - gar-cad

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details