jQuery Loop through selects and set selected option

Question

I\'d like to loop through all of the select inputs on a page and if the selected value is not a certain option then set that value to selected

I have some selects

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Answer 1

You can pass the desired option value to .val() method while targeting select to select required option element:

$('select').val('2');

Working Snippet:

 $('select').val('2');

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