Selecting an option element from a dropdown by its text value

Answer 1

Older IE does not handle options of a select as child nodes, but all browsers implement the text property of a select's option collection.

function selectbytext(sel, txt){
    if(typeof sel== 'string'){
        sel= document.getELementById(sel) || document.getELementsByName(sel)[0];
    }
    var opts= sel.options;
    for(var i= 0, L= opts.length; i