<p>If I had the following select, and did not know the value to use to select an item in advance like in this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/196684/jquery-get-select-option-text">question</a> or the index of the item I wanted selected, how could I select one of the options with jQuery if I did know the text value like Option C?</p>

<pre><code>&lt;select id='list'&gt;
&lt;option value='45'&gt;Option A&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value='23'&gt;Option B&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value='17'&gt;Option C&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;
</code></pre>

```
```
var option;
$('#list option').each(function() {
    if($(this).text() == 'Option C') {
        option = this;
        return false;
    }
});
```
```