On May 8, 3:30 am, Klaus Hartl <klaus.ha...@googlemail.com> wrote: > w3schools is irrelevant to me. Despite the name it has nothing to do > with the W3C and more often than not I found incorrect/incomplete > information there. > > --Klaus
In the given page there is a button labeled 'Try it yourself', where you can empirically verify that the label attribute for an option is only supported by IE7+ :) Anyway, I agree that the value should take precedence over the option's text when using val() as a setter. Worth filing a ticket. cheers -- ricardo