jQuery - select option in select box [duplicate]

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jQuery / Programmatically Select an Option in Select Box

I was wondering, is it possible to select an option from a selectbox/combobox directly from jQuery. For example I want to select the option with the value 5 in a select with values from 1 to 10.

The only solution I can think of is to remove all options and recreate them with the right selected value, but that's a bit unefficient.

Answer 1

Just treat the select box as you would any other input element:

$("#MySelectBox").val("5");