I have text like
important,offtopic,business
I want to use this string to fill a dropdown list. Data is comma-separated text, not JSON.
<select name="ctl00$Content$ucShare$ddlTag" id="ctl00_Content_ucShare_ddlTag">
<option value="important">important</option>
<option value="offtopic">offtopic</option>
<option value="business">business</option>
</select>
How can I do this with jQuery?
Get your text in array format.Then using each loop in jquery you can fill up dropdown list.
var array = $('#yourfield').val().split(",");
var dllist= $('#yourdropdownid');
$.each(array,function(i){
dllist.append(
$('<option></option>').val(array[i]).html(array[i])
);
});
working demo here Jsfiddle