jQuery unselect dropdown menu

Question

I have a dropdown menu for states. The first option is 'Please select state' and its value is 0 but a state is always selected it as the user picks a state from a previous page and it somehow gets state and selects it. I want it to be at value 0.

I have this code....

$('#shipstate option').attr('selected', '');

but this sets all my options to selected.

What Am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You want to set the value of an element that happens to be a select to 0, now turn this phrase into jquery:

$('#shipstate').val(0)