jQuery下拉列表按文本选择选项

Question

I have a select statement and a bunch of options. How do I choose an option by text using jQuery and at the same time deselect the default one, I am using selenium webdriver with python but I want to be able to do this in jQuery, because it seems like a basic thing I should know in jQuery and I would be able to translate it to python selenium myself once I understand how the jQuery works.

<select id="DropDownList">
  <option selected="selected" value="2"> Test1</option> 
  <option value="8"> Test2 </option> 
</select>

This is close to what I want. I have tried multiple functions and selections, but they result in either an empty array, or when I loop them give me all a list of undefined, or a list of every possible attribute they can have. The site is also designed using jQuery mobile if that makes any big difference in selection. Please and thank you.

Answer 1

You mean select by text? This should work:

$("#DropDownList option:contains(" + 'Test2' + ")").attr('selected', true);

Update: to deselect previously selected value, you can do:

$("#DropDownList :selected").attr('selected', false);