jQuery + IE6 = Could not set the selected property. Unspecified error.

Frank — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:51:48 +0000

Recently, I ran across an IE6 issue relating to jQuery and select options. The error message from IE6 was “Could not set the selected property. Unspecified error.“, which appears to be related to a timing issue with the DOM.

Here’s the original code, which worked for IE7 and IE8:

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Frank — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:50:58 +0000

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