I have below select tag
<select id="subCategorySelected">
<option value="Select Sub Category">Select Sub Category</option>
<option value=""></option>
<option value="subcat1">sub cat 1</option>
<option value="subcat2">sub cat 2</option>
<option value=""></option>
<option value="subcat4">sub cat 4</option>
<option value=""></option>
</select>
I need to filter items in the tag and remove all duplicate elements in below way
<select id="subCategorySelected">
<option value="Select Sub Category">Select Sub Category</option>
<option value=""></option>
<option value="subcat1">sub cat 1</option>
<option value="subcat2">sub cat 2</option>
<option value="subcat4">sub cat 4</option>
</select>
I have tried in below ways as suggested in some other question but both are not working
1)
var map = {};
$('#subCategorySelected').each(function () {
if (map[this.value]) {
$(this).remove()
}
map[this.value] = true;
})
2)
$("#subCategorySelected").val(function(idx, val) {
$(this).siblings('[value="'+ val +'"]').remove();
});
Thanks in advance
If you know the only duplicates are empty values you could just do:
$("#subCategorySelected option[value='']").slice(1).remove();
otherwise your first method works, just change the selector to:
$("#subCategorySelected option")
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