How do you select a particular option in a SELECT element in jQuery?

Question

If you know the Index, Value or Text. also if you don\'t have an ID for a direct reference.

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Answer 1

By value, what worked for me with jQuery 1.7 was the below code, try this:

$('#id option[value=theOptionValue]').prop('selected', 'selected').change();