html select not show selected even after set selected

Question

I have a country dropdown and I set the selected attribute to US. I can clearly see select="selected" into select OPTION having value US in firebug. But neither firefox or chrome shown US as selected. I have code for populate & selected country as follows.

var countryData = getCountryData();
var html = '<option value="">Select Country</option>'; 
$.each(countryData, function(key,value) {
    if(defaultValue == value.id)
    {
        html = html + '<option value="'+value.id+'" selected="selected">'+value.name+'</option>';
    }
    else
    {
        html = html + '<option value="'+value.id+'">'+value.name+'</option>';
    }
});
countryField.html(html);

If it is really possible for any reason to browser not shown the selected even we set the attribute selected.

UPDATE : Ok guys, As I was expecting it must be conflicted by other code. And that is the case . I am using bootstrapValidator and a special call "resetForm" which did this behavior. However one thing I did not understand why still html select in firebug shown selected attribute ? But at last I placed this code after resetForm call. Thanks to all for suggestions & help.

Answer 1

I had this peculiar problem of multiple select not selecting the selected values. What I ended up doing is select them with JS (I have jQuery in my app, so that makes it easier) like so:

$('#select_element').find('option[selected="selected"]').each(function(){
    $(this).prop('selected', true);
});

I know this is ugly, and it should be avoided, but if nothing works, this WILL work.