Jquery select option using value

Question

I have Html drop down. i want to mark "11:00 pm" as selected using jquery in single line how can i do it ?

<select name="timing" id="timing" >
      <option value="00:00 am">Midnight</option>
      <option value="11:00 pm">11 pm</option>
      <option value="10:00 pm">10 pm</option>
      <option value="09:00 pm">9 pm</option>
      <option value="08:00 pm">8 pm</option>
    </select>

Answer 1

You can use

$('#timing').val('11:00 pm');

Answer 2

$('option[value="11:00 pm"]').attr('selected', 'selected');