jQuery Mobile - Selected option

Description

The <select> jQuery mobile elements are used to define a selection list. In the <option> tags add attribute selected = "selected" to select a particular option by default.

Example

Following example demonstrates the use of selected option in the jQuery Mobile.

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width, initial-scale = 1">
      <link rel = "stylesheet" href = "https://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css">
      <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
      <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.js"></script>
   </head>

   <body>
      <h2>Selectmenu Selected Option Example</h2>
      <form>
         <div class = "ui-field-contain">
            <label for = "select">Select Menu</label>
            
            <select name = "select" id = "select">
               <option value = "1">Belgaum</option>
               <option value = "2" selected = "selected">Pune</option>
               <option value = "3">Chennai</option>
               <option value = "4">Bangalore</option>
               <option value = "5">Mumbai</option>
            </select>
            
         </div>
      </form>
   </body>
</html>

Output

Let's carry out the following steps to see how the above code works −

Save the above html code as selectmenu_selected_option.html file in your server root folder.
Open this HTML file as http://localhost/selectmenu_selected_option.html and the following output will be displayed.

jquery_mobile_widgets.htm