The index of the object you are looking for needs to be in the collection of objects you select..... which isn't the case of your selector, as you are looking for an <option> tag in a collection (that's just one item) of <select> tags
Right from the docs (http://docs.jquery.com/Core/index) "Searches every matched element for the object and returns the index of the element, if found, starting with zero" so, knowing this $("#mySelect option").index($("option[value=1]")) Should give you the value you are looking for On May 18, 10:07 pm, Sasha <sasha.akh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seems like this should be straightforward based on the documentation: > > ... > <select id="mySelect"> > <option value="0" selected="selected">whatever</option> > <option value="1">other whatever</option> > </select> > ... > <script> > $(document).ready(function(){ > alert($("#mySelect").index($("option[value=1]")));}); > > </script> > > ought to alert "1" - right? Instead I get "-1". > > If I change "#mySelect" in the <script> block to "*", I get "16", the > true index of the option among all the elements of the page. But I'm > wanting to find the index of the option element within the select > element. > > Thanks to anyone who can help! SA
