jquery problem in IE with dynamic dropdown selection

Question

Hi jquery/javascript gurus,

I am trying to use jquery ajax function to populate the dropdown, it works fine with FF, but IE give the javascript error snow below in the scrnshot. howver IE does get the data and selects it.

Am i doing something wrong?

function getAjaxFunction(thisval, curval) {
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "lookup.do?param="+thisval,
        cache: false,
        success: function(data) {
        var values = data;
        var vals   = values.split(";");
            $("#dropdown").find("option").remove().end();
            for (var i = 0; i < vals.length; i++) {
                var parts = vals[i].split(":");
                $("#dropdown").append($('<option />').val(parts[0]).text(parts[1]));
            }
            $("#dropdown").val(curval);
        }
    });
}

Answer 1

You say val(curval) at the end of your function, but your function parameter is named currval with two Rs.

Answer 2

This worked!

function getAjaxFunction(thisval, curval) { 
    $.ajax({ 
        type: "POST", 
        url: "lookup.do?param="+thisval, 
        cache: false, 
        success: function(data) { 
        var values = data; 
        var vals   = values.split(";"); 
            $("#dropdown").find("option").remove().end(); 
            for (var i = 0; i < vals.length; i++) { 
                var parts = vals[i].split(":"); 
                $("#dropdown").append($('<option />').val(parts[0]).text(parts[1])); 
            } 
            try {
                  $("#dropdown").val(curval);
            } catch(ex) {
                  setTimeout("$('#dropdown').val('"+curval+"')",1);
            }
        } 
    }); 
}