Could not set the selected property JQuery. JQuery Dropdown

Question

The following code will not work for me in ie6 but unsurprisingly, it does work in every other browser:

$('#myDropdown').val('value');

I have no idea why this is happening.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You probably need to do something like

$("#myDropdown > option[selected]").removeAttr("selected");
$("#myDropdown > option[value='value']").attr("selected","selected");

Just a guess.