Question

If I had the following select, and did not know the value to use to select an item in advance like in this question or the index of the item I wanted selected, how could I select one of the options with jQuery if I did know the text value like Option C?

<select id='list'> <option value='45'>Option A</option> <option value='23'>Option B</option> <option value='17'>Option C</option> </select> 

Answer 1

var option; $('#list option').each(function() {     if($(this).text() == 'Option C') {         option = this;         return false;     } });