Set select option 'selected', by value

Question

I have a select field with some options in it. Now I need to select one of those options with jQuery. But how can I do that when I only know the

Answer 1

An issue I ran into when the value is an ID and the text is a code. You cannot set the value using the code but you don't have direct access to the ID.

var value;

$("#selectorId > option").each(function () {
  if ("SOMECODE" === $(this).text()) {
    value = $(this).val();
  }
});

//Do work here