jQuery Select Droplist by Value
March 12, 2011
Say we have a droplist (<select>) on a web page, and we want to use jQuery to select one of the items.
Given the following select:
<select id="mySelect"> <option value="A">First</option> <option value="B">Second</option> <option value="C">Third</option> <option value="D">Fourth</option> <option value="E">Fifth</option> </select>
You can select the one you want using:
$('#mySelect option[value=C]').attr('selected', 'selected');
