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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu Perform: Part 1

Cary Oldenkott
Cary Oldenkott
8,178 Points
Posted by Cary Oldenkott
Cary Oldenkott
8,178 Points

Drop down menu not showing any text

After following the video step by step, when I go to preview my code, the drop down menu does not show the menu text.

var $select = $("<select></select>"); $("#menu").append($select);

$("menu a").each(function() { var $anchor = $(this); var $option = $("<option></option>"); $option.val($anchor.attr("href")); $option.text($anchor.text()); $select.append($option); });

4 Answers

Cary Oldenkott
Cary Oldenkott
8,178 Points
Cary Oldenkott
Cary Oldenkott
8,178 Points

Sorry, found the problem. I forgot the hashtag on menu on the append method on the second line

Margaret Godowns
Margaret Godowns
6,268 Points
Margaret Godowns
Margaret Godowns
6,268 Points

I did the same thing -- glad you caught this!

Lea Ingold
Lea Ingold
11,841 Points
Lea Ingold
Lea Ingold
11,841 Points

Thank you, Cary!

Nikola Mitic
Nikola Mitic
9,023 Points
Nikola Mitic
Nikola Mitic
9,023 Points

I just spent 45 minutes trying to get my code to work, ahhh hate when this happen. Anyway thanks, have the same miss type as you.

James Delaplain
James Delaplain
5,872 Points
James Delaplain
James Delaplain
5,872 Points

I had my Index page sourcing wrong as last video was working with src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js" not "src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"