User has selected a country from select list. The option is stored with var country = $('#select-list option:selected').text(); Now when user opens account edit page I would need the country to be selected by default when the page opens.
Only data I could use is the var country which could be in this case ´Great Britain´ and I need jquery to present Great Britain from the select list as selected. How should I do this
Using jQuery you can try this using contains selector. Like this:
$('#select-list').val( $( '#select-list option:contains("' + country + '")' ).val() );
And if value attribute in your <option> elements equal text content you can do this using only val() method:
$('#select-list').val( country );
Try this : use .filter to get the option which has same text as country variable value and set its value to select box
$('#select-list').val( $( '#select-list option').filter(function(){ return $(this).text()==country;}).val());
$('#select-list option["' + country + '"]').prop('selected', true)
