Change Selected Text When Selected

How do you change the selected text in a select box using jQuery? JohnMSolution 1: Try this:$(document).ready(function() { $('#name-select').change(function() { var selectedItem = $('#name-select option:selected'); var oldValue = selectedItem.text(); var newValue = 'Name: ' + oldValue; selectedItem.text(newValue); }); }); CopyYou would need to update your select option to give it an ID though:<selectid="name-select"><optgrouplabel="Name"><option>John</option><option>Mike</option></optgroup></select>CopyAnd here's the jsFiddle demo: http://jsfiddle.net/benmajor/2m76z/Solution 2: html:<selectid="myselect"><optgrouplabel="Name"><option>John</option><option>Mike</option></optgroup></select>Copyjs:$("#myselect").change(function (event) { var o = $("#myselect option:selected") , v=o.text() , old = $("#myselect option:contains('name')") , oldv = old.html(); oldv && old.html(oldv.replace('name: ','')); o.text('name: ' + v); }); Copysee: http://jsfiddle.net/eQR2W/2/Solution 3: If you add a value attribute to the option you could use something like this (and you need to add a value attribute otherwise you will loose the value if someone selects a value and then selects another value).$("select").change(function () { var label = $("select option:selected").parent().attr("label"); var val = $("select option:selected").attr("value"); $("select option:selected").html(label+":"+val); }); Copy Share Post a Comment for "Change Selected Text When Selected" Top Question Disable Text Entry In

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