how to to add options to a select from an array with jQuery

Using DOM Elements Creator plugin : $.create('option', {'value': 'val'}, 'myText').appendTo('#mySelect'); Using the Option constructor (not sure about browser support): $(new Option('myText', 'val')).appendTo('#mySelect'); Using document.createElement (avoiding extra work parsing HTML with $("<option></option>")): $('#mySelect').append($(document.createElement("option")).attr("value","val").text("myText"));