I am binding several drop downs and then setting their selected values using the val method. There is an intermittent issue where by one or some of the dropdowns do not get their selected indexes set - some times they all work.

I've tracked the issue to the each loop on line 1677 of jquery-1.4.4.js where it does not find any option elements, however checking the html, and running a .content() reveals there are plenty of option elements.

The issue is even more difficult to track because there seems to be no pattern as to which dropdrop/dropdowns will fail to get their selected values set, sometimes the first one will fail, sometimes to second, sometimes all of them, sometimes none... etc. etc.

Replacing

dropDown.val(value)

with

document.getElementById(dropDown.attr("id")).selectedIndex = value

means the code works everytime so i'm reasonably sure its an issue with Jquery.

Cheers,

Sam