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.

This, this and this are all helpful answers.

Example markup

Answer 1

None of the methods above provided the solution I needed so I figured I would provide what worked for me.

$('#element option[value="no"]').attr("selected", "selected");