How to clear all selected items in a SELECT input using jQuery?

Try: // Just put # before select to fix this. Works perfect. $("#select option:selected").each(function () { $(this).remove(); //or whatever else });

This worked to clear all selected options for me..

$("#selectListName").prop('selectedIndex', -1)

The select list looked like

<select multiple='multiple' id='selectListName'> 
  <option>1</option> 
  <option>2</option> 
  <option>3</option> 
  <option>4</option>
</select>

Only this worked for me:-

$("#selectid").find('option').attr("selected",false) ;

In the case of a <select multiple> the .val() function takes/returns an array, so you can simply pass in an empty array to clear the selection, like this:

$("#selectID").val([]);

You can test it out here.