title: jQuery - select option in select box
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1573930/jquery-programmatically-select-an-option-in-select-box">jQuery / Programmatically Select an Option in Select Box</a>  </p>
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  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>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.</p>