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JavaScript

Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points
Posted by Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points

Select not appending

somehow my select is not appending. below is my code

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

Thanks.

Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points
Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points

Well copying and pasting isn't going well either...but I think I've mastered the markdown now.

here is the code once more:

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

What am I doing wrong?

Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points
Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points

Perhaps it has to do with my browser, because I copied and pasted the code form the downloaded material, and it still doesn't work

Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points
Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points

Perhaps it is appending, but I can't see it?

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

Hi Maarten,

I'm guessing here but is it that you need to declare your select HTML tags in a ..html() method?

So

var $select = $("<select></select>").html();
$("#menu").append($select);
Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points
Maarten van Essen
Maarten van Essen
869 Points

Thanks. Best answer so far ;-) . However still not working. Any other ideas?