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I have 2 buttons that fire the same form which appears over the page. I would like a dropdown option to change depending on which button is fired.

What am I doing wrong?

var settings = $(this).attr('rel'); $("select[@name='menu'] option[@value='"+settings+"']").attr("selected","selected");

Error

Error: uncaught exception: Syntax error, unrecognized expression:[@value='footer']

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  • It should have been [value='footer'], not [@value='footer'] Commented Feb 22, 2013 at 10:14

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You can just do this:

$("select[name='menu']").val($(this).attr('rel'));

Using .val() is a much quicker way...but your error is occuring because the @ was removed from attribute selectors in jQuery 1.3, it's just [name='menu'] and [value='myValue'] now.

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Thanks a lot, I couldn't work out why it wasn't working. The article I was following is obviously a little out of date. I will tick the answer in 12 minutes :)

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