I am using a Jquery UI multiselect box.

If I access the box like this

category = $("#edit_category").val();

I see that it has a value already in there. I want this value to be visible from the beginning. I re开发者_StackOverflow社区ad somewhere that it'd be useful to set the "option tag" of the multiselect from "selected" to "selected"... I'm not sure what this means.

thoughts?

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I read somewhere that it'd be useful to set the "option tag" of the multiselect from "selected" to "selected"... I'm not sure what this means.

it means that it would be the default selected option when the page loads

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ah this helped me!

http://calisza.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/6-jquery-snippets-you-can-use-to-manipulate-select-inputs/#comment-652

2 $('#selectList :selected').text();