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HTML

<span id="span_id">
    <select id="h273yrjdfhgsfyiruwyiywer" multiple="multiple">
        <option value="1">cleaning</option>
        <option value="2">food-2</option>
        <option value="3">toilet</option>
        <option value="4">baby</option>
        <option value="6">knick-knacks</option>
        <option value="9">junk-2</option>
        <option value="10">cosmetics</option>
    </select>
</span>

JavaScript

options = $("#span_id>select>option[value='2']");
    //alert(options.length); //7
    //alert(options[0]); //[object HTMLOptionElement]
    //alert(options[0].val()); //not a jquery element
    //alert(options[0].value); //1

    //the following does not seem to work since the elements of options are DOM ones not jquery's
    option = options.text();
    alert(option); //undefined
    option.attr('selected', 'selected');