Is it possible to change the selected based on a string of the text?
<p>I am trying to set the select option to selected based on its text</p>

<pre><code>$("#request_showdate_2i").val("November");


&lt;select name="request[showdate(2i)]" id="request_showdate_2i"&gt;
&lt;option value="1"&gt;January&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="2"&gt;February&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="3"&gt;March&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="4"&gt;April&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="5"&gt;May&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="6"&gt;June&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="7"&gt;July&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="8"&gt;August&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="9"&gt;September&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="10" selected="selected"&gt;October&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="11"&gt;November&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="12"&gt;December&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>nothing changes...I dont have the value portion of the month available to me, just the string...any suggestions</p>
