dynamically building select statement from DOM data element

jquery, jquery-mobile

Solution

Organizations = {
     { id="2", name="Systems"}
     { id="4", name="Network"}
     { id="5", name="Operations"}
     { id= "7", name="Security"}
}

Given the above object:

var $el = $('<select></select>');  //create a new DOM Element with jQuery syntax
for (i in Organizations) { //iterate through the object and append options
  $el.append('<option value="' + Organizations[i]['id'] + '">' + Organizations[i]['name'] + '</option>');
}

Then append the created element to somewhere...

$('body').append($el);  //should work

Problem

I need to dynamically build a select dropdown based on form data provided an ajax query. my DOM contains an element "organizations" with 4 children. The children with an org id and org name ``` Organizations = { { id="2", name="Systems"} { id="4", name="Network"} { id="5", name="Operations"} { id= "7", name="Security"} } ``` I need to build the following select clause ``` <select name='organization'> <option value="2">Systems</option> <option value="4">Network</option> <option value="5">Operations</option> </select> ``` How do I dynamically build the select statement?

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