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    <p>To select the first option in a select list, try looking at jQuery's <a href="http://api.jquery.com/first/" rel="nofollow">.first()</a></p> <pre><code>var first = $('select option').first(); </code></pre> <p>To select the selected option in a select list, try looking at jQuery's <a href="http://api.jquery.com/selected-selector/" rel="nofollow">:selected Selector</a></p> <pre><code>var selected = $('select option:selected'); </code></pre> <p>To select the option with a particular attribute, try looking at jQuery's <a href="http://api.jquery.com/attribute-equals-selector/" rel="nofollow">Attribute Equals Selector</a></p> <pre><code>var english = $('select option[lang="English]'); </code></pre> <p>Combining these to get the first English selected element, we get:</p> <pre><code>var engSelected = $('select option[lang="English]:selected') </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> It looks like your HTML attributes are not set up correctly, try this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;select id = "selectLanguage" name="language"&gt; &lt;option value="any" lang="English"&gt;All&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="any" lang="French"&gt;Tous&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="french" lang="English"&gt;French&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="french" lang="French"&gt;Français&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="english" lang="English"&gt;English&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="english" lang="French"&gt;Englais&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Note:</strong></p> <p>You can also refine your selection by attributes, like this:</p> <pre><code>var engEnglish = $('select option[value="english"][lang="English"]'); </code></pre>
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