Make Ajax & HTML (code-side) Dropdown Dynamic

So I have this script that outputs a drop down menu and refreshes the .box div with a new color and image. HTML & Java: <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js"></script> <div> <select id="color"> <option style="display: none;">Choose Color</option> </select> </div> <div class="red box">You have selected <strong>red option</strong> so i am here <img src="http://i46.tinypic.com/2epim8j.jpg" /> </div> <div class="green box">You have selected <strong>green option</strong> so i am here <img src="http://i49.tinypic.com/28vepvr.jpg" /> </div> <div class="blue box">You have selected <strong>blue option</strong> so i am here <img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/f0ud01.jpg" /> </div> <script> $(document).ready(function() { $("select").change(function() { $("select option:selected").each(function() { if ($(this).attr("value") == "Red") { $(".box").hide(); $(".red").show(); } if ($(this).attr("value") == "Green") { $(".box").hide(); $(".green").show(); } if ($(this).attr("value") == "Blue") { $(".box").hide(); $(".blue").show(); } }); }).change(); }); var select = document.getElementById("color"); var options = ["Red", "Blue", "Green"]; for(var i = 0; i < options.length; i++) { var opt = options[i]; var el = document.createElement("option"); el.textContent = opt; el.value = opt; select.appendChild(el); } </script> CSS: .box { padding: 20px; display: none; margin-top: 20px; border: 1px solid #000; } .box img { float: right; width: 150px; height: 100px; } .red { background: #ff0000; } .green { background: #00ff00; } .blue { background: #0000ff; } It all works beautifully. Thing is, I want to scale this up into roughly 100 fields and doing so manually is both exhausting and inefficient (though the CSS will probably be manual). So what I want to do is make my script more dynamic, by allowing me to create a color once (in my established options array) and then the html and javascript would loop through it to display their actions. So then I guess my first question is how can I take my html chunk and turn it into a loop that goes through my options array? Secondly, how can I take my options array to get my code simplified? Thank you