Ajax success response and select option append

Question

I am trying to make an ajax call to obtain the list of countries from my DB. The following are parts of the code:

country.php:

while ($country = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$data[] = $country['country'];
   }
echo json_encode(array("response"=>$data));
}    

I am getting following response as:

{"response":["Afghanistan","Albania","Algeria","American-Samoa","Andorra","Angola"......

Ajax code:

//country select
$( "#country" ).focus(function() {
$.ajax({
url: 'country.php',
dataType: 'json',
contentType: 'application/json',
success: function(data) {
//console.log(data);
var formoption = "";
$.each(data, function(v)
{
var val = data[v];
formoption += "<option value='"+val+"'>"+val+"</option>";
});

$('#countries').append(formoption);
      }
   });
});

and in the form:

<select id="country" name="country" class="form_input required">
<div id="countries"></div>
</select>

somehow it is not working and i am unable to find the reason. Please note that i am a JavaScript newbie. I am using it as part of Framework7 code.

Expecting help from experts.

Answer 1

Use $('#countries').append(formoption);

and remove div tag inside select tag & change select id to countries, use below html

<select id="countries" name="countries" class="form_input required">
</select>

you were wrapping options in div tag so thats not proper html. options should directly be appended to select tag.

Refer below sample code

$(function() {
  var resultFromAjax = {response: ["Afghanistan", "Albania", "Algeria", "American-Samoa", "Andorra", "Angola"]}
  var data = resultFromAjax.response

  var formoption = "";
  $.each(data, function(v) {
    var val = data[v]
    formoption += "<option value='" + val + "'>" + val + "</option>";
  });
  $('#countries').html(formoption);

});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select id="countries" name="country" class="form_input required">
</select>