What I really want is $(‘option [value :in(1,2,3)]’) to select all options whose value is 1, 2, or 3.

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Example:

select 2 has, say 10 options: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

select1_option0 should hide nothing in select2
select1_option1 should hide all but select2: options 1, 2, and 3
select1_option2 should hide all but select2: options 1, 2, 3, and 9
select1_option3 should hide all but select2: options 5, 6, and 7
select1_option4 should hide all but select2: options 4, 6, 8, and 1


I could easily loop over the data, but it occurred to me a jquery selector would be much nicer. I was thinking something like:

$(‘option [value :in(1,2,3)]’).attr('disabled', true)

Any better ideas than simply looping over the data or combining into one selector something as bad as:

$(‘option [value=1], option [value=2], option [value=3]’).attr('disabled', true)\

?

In essence it looks about what you said, but the rules were not as complex as you might have originally imagined since I could describe them with a hash.