I have a selectlist box in Jquery I am doing something like:

      $("#Deg").append(degtems);

As I am calling the above code a number of times, it keeps on appending. How do I trunctate and then append.

Thank

• jquery

Call .empty() first:

$("#Deg").empty().append(degtems);

..or you could simply use .html() as @KevinB points out below:

$("#Deg").html(degtems);

Try using .html:

$("#Deg").html(degtems);

It's essentially just doing this:

$("#Deg").empty().append(degtems);

• http://api.jquery.com/html
• http://api.jquery.com/empty

Use the .empty method on the select element first to remove all children:

$("#Deg").empty()

....
$("#Deg").append(degtems);