SO Question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7373058

HTML

<select id="sel">
    <option value="1">Cat</option>
    <option value="2">Dog</option>
    <option value="3">Fish</option>
</select>

JavaScript

$('#sel option:contains(Fish)').prop({selected: true});
alert($('#sel option:contains(Fish)').prop({selected: true}))