title: jQuery - Set selected value of all dropdowns on page
body: <p>I have another jQuery question. For a user control with lots of database activity, I would like to use jQuery to set the selected values of all of the dropdowns to their "current" value. I want to do this to make the page appear to have finished the database call.</p>
  
  <p>My jQuery skill is not the best, but I believe I need to use the pageLoad(). And since each dropdown is inside of a user control I can search for those dropdowns beginning with "usrControl"</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('select[id ^="usrControl"'].each(function(){ 
      var selectedValue = $(this).val()
      $(this).val(selectedValue)
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Something like this is what I have in mind.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>