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HTML

<select id="size">
    <option value="19991">Medium</option>
    <option value="19992">Large</option>
    <option value="19993">XLarge</option>
</select>

JavaScript

var theText = "Large";
$("#size option:text(" + theText + ")").attr('selected', 'selected');