Get selected option from select element

Question

I am trying to get the selected option from a dropdown and populate another item with that text, as follows. IE is barking up a storm and it doesn\'t work in Firefox:

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Answer 1

Given this HTML:

    One
    Two

Select by description for jQuery v1.6+:

var text1 = 'Two';
$("select option").filter(function() {
    //may want to use $.trim in here
    return $(this).text() == text1; 
}).prop('selected', true);