hmmm, would be more straight up js than jQuery if you had:
<select id="Users" selection="multiple"> <option value="1">Bob</option> <option value="2">Doug</option> <option value="3">Jake</option> <option value="4">Steve</option> <option value="5">Mike</option> <option value="6">John</option> <select> //values from database in some enumerable object var vfdb = new Array("1", "4", "6"); //loop and set var lst = $("Users")[0]; for (var i=0; i < lst.options.length; i++) { for (var j=0; j < vfdb.length; j++) { if (lst.options[i].value == vfdb[j]) { lst.options[i].selected == true; break; } } } of course that could be included in the success callback of some sort of $.ajax call or whatever On Sep 30, 9:51 am, "Allen Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > If I have a select multiple set up with say 10 items, and I am making a pass > over them from a call to a database that returns some of those values (more > than one), how can I check to see if an option in the select is one of the > items returned from the database and select it also? > Thanks! > > Allen