javascript - Set the default value in dropdownlist using jQuery

Question

I have many options in my dropdownlist like:

<option value="1">it's me</option>

I need to select the option who have value it's me inside the tag, not by attribute like 1.

How can I do this using jQuery?

Answer 1

if your wanting to use jQuery for this, try the following code.

$('select option[value="1"]').attr("selected",true);

Updated:

Following a comment from Vivek, correctly pointed out steven spielberg wanted to select the option via its Text value.

Here below is the updated code.

$('select option:contains("it's me")').prop('selected',true);

You need to use the :contains(text) selector to find via the containing text.

Also jQuery prop offeres better support for Internet Explorer when getting and setting attributes.

A working example on JSFiddle