title: change the value of dropdown using Jquery
body: <pre><code>&lt;select name="vehicle_make" onchange="test1(this.value)" style="width: 130px; float:left;" id="vehicle_make" class="home_input"&gt;
      &lt;option value=""&gt;Choose Make&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="2063"&gt;Acura&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="2064"&gt;Honda&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i have a dropdown. i have read the href attribute of the link and assigned it as the value to dropdown. but i want to take only the number from the link and assign it as value to dropdown how can i do it.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="vehicle_make" onchange="test1(this.value)" style="width: 130px; float:left;" id="vehicle_make" class="home_input"&gt;
      &lt;option value=""&gt;Choose Make&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="http://store.teknotik.com/category-s/2063.htm"&gt;Acura&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="http://store.teknotik.com/category-s/2064.htm"&gt;Honda&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i have used following jquery to get the link as value</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#data a").each(function(index) {
          if ($(this).attr("class") == "subcategory_link") {
  
  
              //document.getElementsById("year").innerHTML="&lt;option value="+$(this).attr("href")+"&gt;test&lt;/option&gt;";
              lnk[cnt] = $(this).attr("href");
              cnt = cnt + 1;
              //alert($(this).attr("href"));
  
          }
      });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but i want to have the dropdown value as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="vehicle_make" onchange="test1(this.value)" style="width: 130px; float:left;" id="vehicle_make" class="home_input"&gt;
      &lt;option value=""&gt;Choose Make&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="2063"&gt;Acura&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="2064"&gt;Honda&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i want to have only the number before .htm in above dropdownho send as value. Please advise.</p>