Default text which won't be shown in drop-down list

Question

I have a select which initially shows Select language until the user selects a language. When the user opens the select, I don\'t want it to show a

Answer 1

Op1:

$("#MySelectid option").each(function () {
        if ($(this).html() == "text to find") {
            $(this).attr("selected", "selected");
            return;
        }
});

Op2:

$('#MySelectid option')
.filter(function() { return $.trim( $(this).text() ) == 'text to find'; })​​​​​​​​.attr('selected','selected');​​​​​​​