Set selected option by text of dropdownlist

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In this post we will see how to set selected option by text to dropdownlist. In web application we need to set dropdownlist value at client side. By using option property of dropdown list we will check if dropdown contains text that we want to set And after that using selected attribute we will set it true so that it will show the option selected that we have set using text.
set selected option in dropdownlist using jquery

Sample to set selected option by text to dropdownlist[jQuery] 


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <title>Set dropdownlist selected option by text</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      $(document).ready(function () {
        $("#go").click(function () {
         var inputText = $("#inputText").val();
          $("#numbers option:contains(" + inputText + ")").attr('selected', 'selected'); 
        });
      });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
      <label>Enter value between 1-3</label>
      <input type="text" id="inputText"/>
    <asp:DropDownList ID="numbers" runat="server">
    <asp:ListItem Text="1" Value="1"></asp:ListItem>
    <asp:ListItem Text="2" Value="2"></asp:ListItem>
    <asp:ListItem Text="3" Value="3"></asp:ListItem>
    </asp:DropDownList>
    </div>
    <input type="button" id="go" value="Go" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Summary:By using $("#numbers option:contains(" + inputText + ")").attr('selected', 'selected'); we have dynamically set the selected option of a drop-down list using JQuery.We can set selected option of dropdown list by it's value likeset selected option of dropdown box by value

Set value to textarea - jQuery

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In this post we will see how to set value to textarea in jQuery. To assign value to textarea in jquery we can use .val() method of textarea. In example we will take value from input testbox and assign it to textarea.

set value to textarea in jquery

Example to set value to textarea [jQuery] 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.11/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.11/i18n/jquery-ui-i18n.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.1/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
    <title>Set textarea value in jQuery</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      $(document).ready(function () {
        $("#submitbtn").click(function () {
          var inputVal = $("#inputText").val();
          $("#txtMessage").val(inputVal);
        });
      });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
      <label>Type Text here</label>
        <input type="text" id="inputText" /><br/>
        <textarea cols="50" rows="5" id="txtMessage"></textarea><br/>
        <input type="button" id="submitbtn" value="Submit" />
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>