JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<select id="selectid">
    <option> option1 </option>
    <option value="option2"> option5 </option>
    <option> option3 </option>
    <option> option4 </option>
</select>

JavaScript

$('document').ready(function() 
                        {
$("select#selectid").val("option2");
}
);