Non-unique value causing multiple selection

[patrickgalbraith]

If the option value is not unique then it causes multiple options to be selected.

See this fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/a90wqg27/ and try selecting Bicycling, mountain, general and Bicycling, BMX will also be selected.

It is valid to have multiple options with the same value so you might want to add a unique identifier to the option using a data attribute to keep track of each option rather than assuming that the values will be unique.

In this case I could easily work around the issue by using <option data-value="x"> and fixing it with javascript but it would be nice to not have to do that.

[patrickgalbraith]

Actually it seems to work fine if live is set to false. So it might have something to do with the live option.

See http://jsfiddle.net/a90wqg27/1/