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HTML

<select id="id">
    <option>foo</option>
    <option>bar</option>
    <option>baz</option>
</select>

<select id="id2">
    <option>foo</option>
    <option>bar</option>
    <option>baz</option>
</select>

CSS

select { font-size:50px; }

JavaScript

$('#id option[text="bar"]').attr('selected', true);
$('#id2 option:[text="bar"]').attr('selected', true);