How to make inforDropDownList class to default to a specific country?

This is an HTML question - How do I go about making the inforDropDownList class defaults to " United States of America"? This is from Talent Acquisition external candidate space.

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I've done this before but only where I defined the list directly in the HTML. Notice where I have "selected" placed. This will make "BLUE" as the default value.

    <select name="colorlist" id="colorlist">

        <option value="red">RED</option>

        <option value="blue" selected>BLUE</option>

        <option value="green">GREEN</option>

        <option value="black">BLACK</option>

    </select>

Patric

Thanks for replying Tammy

I wish it was that easy....Infor is using some type of a container class wrapper and I'm not able to find where the selected value (or values) is coming from and how to set to what I want.

Another code example that I see is this below which defaults the listbox to "Prefix". I would love to be able to set it to "United States":

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Hi,

I don't know Talen Acquisition but the Infor controles that are as basic as a drop down don't change that much but yes you have to know how they work and when there are initialized and how the HTML should look like. You also need to know JQuery to sometimes be able to call methods on them.

https://design.infor.com/code/ids-enterprise/4.22.1/dropdown

So depending on your version you can check the documenation. Perhaps the selected value is set with selectValue(value) somewhere in the code. As always there is a threshold to learn new things and apply a framework but it comes with features and benefits as well.

It seems like the some of the links are broken at the design site, I don't know what the status is of having all example available for all versions.

Have you searched for selPriCountry if it is used in code.

In the example on the design site it was enough to set selected on the correct option. But in your code there are no options in the HTML so they are added by JavaScript somewhere. Find that location and call selectValue('YourValue'); Know the difference between the value and the visible text.

Happy Coding :-)

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