How to select a drop down item which contains a substring

iscopia

Hello,

I would like to know how to select the first item in a drop down list which contains the supplied text.

for example...if my list box contains the following entries...

first entry
second entry
3rd entry
4th entry
5th entry

I would like to pass only the text "th" and have the value set to "4th entry".

Thanks,

Eric.

narayan

_setSelected(_select("id"), /th/) should work.

iscopia

Thanks for the help. Works fine for hard coded values.
What if I want to pass the value in a variable?
I've tried the following plus another couple of variants with no success.

var $test = "th";
_setSelected(_select("id"), /$test/)

Thanks,

Eric.

iscopia

Nevermind, figured it out...and also added the ability to remove any trailing spaces :-)

var $test = "th";
_setSelected(_select("country"),RegExp($test.replace(/\s+$/, '')));