When I append the options, the initial value isn't shown and I just get a blank line. The values are there and selectable when clicking on the menu, but it is just the initial view.

It works fine when I hardcode the menu into the page. I would assume it is because I initially have an empty dropdown which is showing as it should and when appending, the view doesn't know to update so keeps showing an empty line. Is there anyway I can force the view to update after I have appended?

Here is a screen showing what I mean. The "location" dropdown is the one I am having issue with and the "test" one is one I have hard coded to show what I am trying to achieve.

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I am having issues with dynamically populating a select menu in jQuery mobile. Fraser 5, 14 52 This has done the trick: Did you find this question interesting?

Try our newsletter Sign up for our newsletter and get our top new questions delivered to your inbox see an example. Please click the link in the confirmation email to activate your subscription. After you append all options to your menu: I like the idea. I thought this would have worked too.

I have found a different solution. I tried this and it doesn't work.

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If I remove the jquery mobile reference it does work but as long as I add the referece back the prefilling will gone. Fraser's solution posted above can resolve the problem.

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