jQuery cookies setting select drop down value after page refresh

In all honesty my brain is rather fried after getting this far today.

I am trying to save the state of multiple select drop downs on page using this plugin:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/cookies

I am using this jQuery to set cookies for the different title drop downs based on their ID:

$(document).ready(function() {

// hide 'Other' inputs to start
$('.jOther').hide();

// event listener on all select drop downs with class of jTitle 
$(".jTitle").change(function(){

    //set the select value
    var val = $(this).val();

    if(val != "Other") {
        //$(this).nextAll('.jOther').hide();
        $(this).parent().find(".jOther").hide();
    } else {
        //$(this).nextAll('.jOther').show();
        $(this).parent().find(".jOther").show();
    }

    // Sets a cookie with named after the title field's ID attribute 
    $(this).cookify();

});

$(".jTitle").each(function(){

    // get the id of each Title select drop down
    var $titleId = $(this).attr('id');

    // get the value of the cookie for each cookie created above in $(this).cookify()
    var $cookieValue = $.cookies.get($titleId);

    // if value is 'Other' make sure it is shown on page refresh
    if ($cookieValue == 'Other') {

        // Show the other input
        $(this).parent().find(".jOther").show();

        // set select value to 'Other'
        $(this).val('Other');

    } else {

        // set to whatever is in the cookie
        $(this).val($cookieValue);

    }                       

}); 

});

What is happening is that when no cookies are set the select drop down is displaying a blank option when i want it to default to 'Please select'.

Sample HTML th开发者_如何学JAVAat i am using:

<td>
<select id="titleDepend1" class="inlineSpace jTitle">
    <option value="Please select">Please select...</option>
    <option value="Mr">Mr</option>
    <option value="Mrs">Mrs</option>
    <option value="Ms">Ms</option>
    <option value="Miss">Miss</option>
    <option value="Dr">Dr</option>
    <option value="Other">Other</option>
</select>
<label for="otherDepend1" class="inlineSpace jOther">Other</label>
<input type="text" class="text jOther" name="otherDepend1" id="otherDepend1" maxlength="6" />

So if it is the first time the user is on page and they have not clicked any drop downs the first value will be null rather than 'Please select'.

I'd change this portion, if the cookie isn't there, just don't mess with the dropdown:

$(".jTitle").each(function(){
  var $titleId = $(this).attr('id');
  var $cookieValue = $.cookies.get($titleId);
  if ($cookieValue == 'Other') {
    $(this).parent().find(".jOther").show();
    $(this).val('Other');
  } else if($cookieValue) {
    $(this).val($cookieValue);
  }                       
});

The only change is to add an if check on the end, see if there is a cookie...if not the default position of 0 in the dropdown (browser default) will be left alone.