Question

I have a HTML combobox which has two entries. One is blank and the other is some text. I don’t know what the values are.

Is there anyway by using jquery (given the constaint above) that I can have the entry with text in it programtically selected in the combobox?

Answer 1

this is one way to do it

assuming this is the html

<select size="5" id="foobar">
   <option value="">foo</option>
    <option value="bar">bar</option>
</select>

here is the jquery

$('#foobar option:nth-child(2)').prop('selected',true);

here is a working demo