# jQueryMobile Question

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/jquerymobile-question/331423
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [July 29, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/jquerymobile-question/331423 "2013-07-29T22:03:34Z")
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### Author: ![VaiFanatic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/vaifanatic/32/7159_2.png) [@VaiFanatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/VaiFanatic)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/jquerymobile-question/331423/1 "2013-07-29T22:03:34Z")

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Been a while since I’ve posted here, but I’ve been fiddling and learning jQueryMobile, and I’ve a question with regard to assigning a value to an option within a select menu.

Basically, what purpose does assigning a value serve? The select menu will work regardless, it seems.

To illustrate below in code, I’ve assigned values to the first menu, and no values to the second.

I probably already know the answer to this question and I’ll most likely feel a litte dumb when someone answers it, but better safe than sorry!

```auto

<div data-form="fieldcontain">
                <form>
                    <label for="lang">Languages you like</label>
                        <select id="lang" name="lang" multiple data-theme="e"> <!-- Use the data-theme element here to change the color -->
                            <option value="1">C/C++</option>
                            <option value="2">Objective-C</option>
                            <option value="3">Java</option>
                            <option value="4">C#</option>
                            <option value="5">Visual Basic</option>
                            <option value="6">Action Script</option>
                            <option value="7">Delphi</option>
                            <option value="8">Python</option>
                            <option value="9">JavaScript</option>
                            <option value="10">Ruby</option>
                            <option value="11">PHP</option>
                        </select>
                </form>
            </div>
            
            <div data-form="fieldcontain">
                <form>
                    <label for="cars">Cars</label>
                        <select id="cars" name="cars" blank>
                            <optgroup label="American">
                                <option>Jeep</option>
                                <option>Ford</option>
                                <option>Dodge</option>
                                <option>Chevy</option>
                            </optgroup>
                            <optgroup label="German">
                                <option>Mercedes-Benz</option>
                            </optgroup>
                        </select>
                </form>
            </div>

```