$('select').val('value') stopped working in 1.4.2

[leo_koester]

jQuery 1.4.2 cannot set a <select> through 'val()'. The following code works fine with 1.3.2, but 1.4.2 doesn't:

HTML: <select name="venCod" class="prevNext" onChange="alert(this.value)"> <option value="123">Item 1</option> <option value="456">Item 2</option> <option value="789">Item 3</option> <option value="012">Item 4</option> <option value="345" selected>Item 5</option> <option value="678">Item 6</option> <option value="901">Item 7</option> <option value="234">Item 8</option> <option value="567">Item 9</option> </select>

SCRIPT: $("select.prevNext") .before("<a href=# class=prev >&lt;</a>") .after("<a href=# class=next >&gt;</a>") .siblings("a.prev,a.next")

.click(function(){

var $sel = $(this).siblings("select"); if ( $(this).hasClass("prev") ) var cod = $sel.children("option[selected]").prev("option").val(); else var cod = $sel.children("option[selected]").next("option").val(); if ( cod ) $sel.val(cod).change(); status = cod + ' = ' + $sel.val();

});

The last item is always selected when the links are clicked, no matter what is the option selected before. If I set "multiple" to <select>, every item were selected when "a.prev"/"a.next" was clicked.

[dmethvin]

The attached complete test case works for me on Firefox 3.6.8, IE8, Safari 5, and Chrome 5. It's basically the same as your code snippet.