Question

I need to check if a <select> has an option whose text is equal to a specific value.

For example, if there’s an <option value="123">abc</option>, I would be looking for “abc”.

Is there a selector to do this?

Im looking for something similar to $('#select option[value="123"]'); but for the text.

Answer 1

This could help:

$('#test').find('option[text="B"]').val();

Demo fiddle

This would give you the option with text B and not the ones which has text that contains B.

For recent versions of jQuery the above does not work. As commented by Quandary below, this is what works for jQuery 1.9.1:

$('#test option').filter(function () { return $(this).html() == "B"; }).val();

Updated fiddle