jQuery's val() method change doesn't seem to change the DOM

Question

Doing $(\"#someId\").val(\"newValue\") doesn\'t change the DOM -- I can retrieve this value with $(\"#someId\").val(), but the element in the DOM s

Answer 1

Reading from "rsp" answer and discussion:

you want to change the HTML source, not the DOM.

Therefore use:

$('#YOUR_ID option[value="YOUR_VALUE"]').attr('selected', 'selected');

The method .val() does not change the HTML source.

Cheers. Stefano