Populating Dropdown using jquery from json data

Question

I have following JSON Data

{"Date Created":"date_entered","Date Modified":"date_modified","Description":"description"}

How do I populate dropdown with jquery using this json data ?

charlietfl · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-18 10:16:04Z

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Assuming data has already been parsed to javascript object, you need to loop over object keys and construct html something like:

var html='<option value=""></option>';
for(key in data){
    html += '<option value="' + data[key] + '">' + key + '</option>';
}
$('#mySelect').html( html );

DEMO

answered Oct 18, 2014 at 10:16

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Julius Over a year ago

Great solution. Helped me beyond my need.

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