Creating dropdown <select> elements with javascript

Question

I am new to jQuery and Javascript. I have to create select->option drop down control with client side jQuery/Javascripting. These drop downs are having their options from ar

Answer 1

This will create the drop downs on the fly:

function getDropDownList(name, id, optionList) {
    var combo = $("<select></select>").attr("id", id).attr("name", name);

    $.each(optionList, function (i, el) {
        combo.append("<option>" + el + "</option>");
    });

    return combo;
    // OR
    $("#SELECTOR").append(combo);
}