I rigged the XSLT search to use my values I have in a droplist that match properties set by the admin.

The thing is when a person uses the search or hits the search button the way I am doing it, the values are not persistent.

I am using jQuery to generate the query to have the XSLT search on.

Example is below for my jQuery

 $("#resourceSelect").click(function (event) { 
    var resourceGradeId = $('#teachersResourceSearchGrade').val();
     var resourceContentId = $('#teachersResourceSearchContent').val();
     var resourceProgramTypeId = $('#teachersResourceSearchProgramType').val(); 
    var resourceSearchAll = $('#teachersResourceSearchAll').val();
    window.location.href = '/teachers-v2/classroom-resources?search=' + resourceGradeId + ' ' + resourceContentId + ' ' + resourceProgramTypeId + ' ' + resourceSearchAll;
        });

I do a window.location.href as you can see. But I need the values to persist in the droplist so they don't clear in my <select> droplist.  Can anyone help?

Thanks,