jquery : How to select an option by its text?

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This could help: $('#test').find('option[text="B"]').val(); Demo - http://jsfiddle.net/nmvf6/1/ This would give you the option with text B and not the ones which has text that contains B. Hope this helps EDIT: For recent versions of jQuery the above does not work. As commented by Quandary below, this is what works for jQuery 1.9.1: $('#test option').filter(function () { return $(this).html() == "B"; }).val();

jQuery( document ).ready(function() {
    var company_type = $("#user_company_type").val();// Option text val
    var user_type_id = $('#user_user_type_id option').filter(function () {  

               return $(this).html() == company_type }).val()
    document.getElementById('user_user_type_id').value = user_type_id;
});

               RAILS SELECT TAG WITH FORM OR WITHOUT FORM

= select_tag 'user_types_ids[]',options_for_select( 

       UserType.all.map {|data| [data.name, data.id]},@selected_user_types),

      {:multiple => :multiple,:id=>"user_types_ids"}



= f.select :knowledge_base_category_id, options_for_select(KnowledgeBaseCategory.all.map {|data| [data.name, data.id]},@article.knowledge_base_category_id)