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    copied!<p>I have a weird html option list which I dont want to check each value to make it selected or not see the list below </p> <pre><code>&lt;select name="height" id="height"&gt; &lt;option value="" label="Select"&gt;Select Height&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4ft 5in - 134cm" label="4ft 5in - 134cm"&gt;4ft 5in - 134cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4ft 6in - 137cm" label="4ft 6in - 137cm"&gt;4ft 6in - 137cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4ft 7in - 139cm" label="4ft 7in - 139cm"&gt;4ft 7in - 139cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4ft 8in - 142cm" label="4ft 8in - 142cm"&gt;4ft 8in - 142cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4ft 9in - 144cm" label="4ft 9in - 144cm"&gt;4ft 9in - 144cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4ft 10in - 147cm" label="4ft 10in - 147cm"&gt;4ft 10in - 147cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4ft 11in - 149cm" label="4ft 11in - 149cm"&gt;4ft 11in - 149cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft - 152cm" label="5ft - 152cm"&gt;5ft - 152cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 1in - 154cm" label="5ft 1in - 154cm"&gt;5ft 1in - 154cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 2in - 157cm" label="5ft 2in - 157cm"&gt;5ft 2in - 157cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 3in - 160cm" label="5ft 3in - 160cm"&gt;5ft 3in - 160cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 4in - 162cm" label="5ft 4in - 162cm"&gt;5ft 4in - 162cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 5in - 165cm" label="5ft 5in - 165cm"&gt;5ft 5in - 165cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 6in - 167cm" label="5ft 6in - 167cm"&gt;5ft 6in - 167cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 7in - 170cm" label="5ft 7in - 170cm"&gt;5ft 7in - 170cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 8in - 172cm" label="5ft 8in - 172cm"&gt;5ft 8in - 172cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 9in - 175cm" label="5ft 9in - 175cm"&gt;5ft 9in - 175cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 10in - 177cm" label="5ft 10in - 177cm"&gt;5ft 10in - 177cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5ft 11in - 180cm" label="5ft 11in - 180cm"&gt;5ft 11in - 180cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft - 182cm" label="6ft - 182cm"&gt;6ft - 182cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 1in - 185cm" label="6ft 1in - 185cm"&gt;6ft 1in - 185cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 2in - 187cm" label="6ft 2in - 187cm"&gt;6ft 2in - 187cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 3in - 190cm" label="6ft 3in - 190cm"&gt;6ft 3in - 190cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 4in - 193cm" label="6ft 4in - 193cm"&gt;6ft 4in - 193cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 5in - 195cm" label="6ft 5in - 195cm"&gt;6ft 5in - 195cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 6in - 198cm" label="6ft 6in - 198cm"&gt;6ft 6in - 198cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 7in - 200cm" label="6ft 7in - 200cm"&gt;6ft 7in - 200cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 8in - 203cm" label="6ft 8in - 203cm"&gt;6ft 8in - 203cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 9in - 205cm" label="6ft 9in - 205cm"&gt;6ft 9in - 205cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 10in - 208cm" label="6ft 10in - 208cm"&gt;6ft 10in - 208cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6ft 11in - 210cm" label="6ft 11in - 210cm"&gt;6ft 11in - 210cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="7ft - 213cm" label="7ft - 213cm"&gt;7ft - 213cm&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; </code></pre> <p>I need to make a particluar value to be set selected, whhen form is sbumitted, I know the value of select, But i dont want to match against each option value to make it selected </p> <p>SO what I am looking for is there anyway (not jquery) to make a value selected from tag itself without using selected option in tag</p> <p>I tried to set value="some value" in select but it didnt work ! </p>
 

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