jQuery - setting the selected value of a select control via its text description

Question

I have a select control, and in a javascript variable I have a text string.

Using jQuery I want to set the selected element of the select control to be the item with

Answer 1

I know this is an old post, but I couldn't get it to select by text using jQuery 1.10.3 and the solutions above. I ended up using the following code (variation of spoulson's solution):

      var textToSelect = "Hello World";

      $("#myDropDown option").each(function (a, b) {
            if ($(this).html() == textToSelect ) $(this).attr("selected", "selected");
        });

Hope it helps someone.