Find value in dropdown and then select it through jquery

Question

I want to find out a value which is present in dropdown list and then select that value as selected object in dropdownlist. Im using jquery

Answer 1

In addition to Rahul's great answer, if you want to select it by its index, you can do...

$('select#my')[0].selectedIndex = 5;

Answer 2

If you want to select the option with a value you can use

$("#dropdownid").val(yourvalue);

Working Demo