How do I clear the dropdownlist values on button click event using jQuery?

$('#dropdownid').empty();

That will remove all <option> elements underneath the dropdown element.

If you want to unselect selected items, go with the code from Russ.

A shorter alternative to the first solution given by Russ Cam would be:

$('#mySelect').val('');

This assumes you want to retain the list, but make it so that no option is selected.

If you wish to select a particular default value, just pass that value instead of an empty string.

$('#mySelect').val('someDefaultValue');

or to do it by the index of the option, you could do:

$('#mySelect option:eq(0)').attr('selected','selected'); // Select first option

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