jquery ui selectable: make an option selected on load

Question

I have the following HTML:

<ol id="selectable">
    <li class="ui-state-default">Option 1</li>
    <li class="ui-state-default">Option 1</li>
    <li class="ui-state-default">Option 3</li>
</ol>

I need, for example the first option, to be selected by default on page load. I use the following code without any luck:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('#selctable li:first').addClass('ui-selected');
});

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

You have a typo, missing an e in #selctable ?

adeneo
– adeneo

2012-08-11 07:53:25 +00:00
Commented Aug 11, 2012 at 7:53 — adeneo
– adeneo, Commented Aug 11, 2012 at 7:53

adeneo · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-11 07:56:37Z

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You need to call selectable() before adding the class to the first li

$(function() {
    $( "#selectable" ).selectable().children().first().addClass('ui-selected');
});

FIDDLE

answered Aug 11, 2012 at 7:56

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JustinMichaels Over a year ago

+1 for help on adding a selection to the selectable programmatically. There's no guidance on this in the jQuery Ui Selectable documentation. I would believe this would be a pretty common requirement.

Amin Eshaq · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-11 07:53:45Z

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You miss-spelled selectable.

$('#selectable li:first').addClass('ui-selected');

check out this jsFiddle

answered Aug 11, 2012 at 7:53

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Subliminal Hash Over a year ago

Need to get some sleep I guess.

Compustretch · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-11 08:03:40Z

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attributeName - Use .attr() and set the value to true: http://api.jquery.com/attr/

answered Aug 11, 2012 at 8:03

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:59:40Z

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$(document).ready(function () {
    $('#selectable li:first').attr("selected",true);
});

See this question: jQuery Cannot set "selected"="selected" via attr() on <option> elements?

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:59

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answered Aug 11, 2012 at 7:54

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Amin Eshaq Over a year ago

selected is for options of the select element.. he has an OL

Alberto León Over a year ago

Was my fault, I up voted your response, because the error is miss-spelled as you said

Pradeeshnarayan · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-11 08:02:28Z

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you can use like this

$('#selectable :first-child').addClass('ui-selected');

please check the example: FIDDLE

answered Aug 11, 2012 at 8:02

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