Not exactly. I guess looping through my string would work. but its a multiple select list so .addclass wont work
i tried using $("#mylist option:contains(3)").attr("selected", "selected"); this compares against the list value, not the id. Is there a way to compare against the id? Better yet, us there a function that will let me drop in my string and will simply find all the ids that match and then i can use .attr ("selected", "selected"); on that?