You could use the Array.prototype.forEach method to loop through your elements and set the selected property of that element to true if its textContent matches a specified value, like this:
const text = "6524125";
[...document.getElementsByTagName("option")].forEach(element => {
if (element.textContent === text) {
element.selected = true;
}
});
<select id="account" class="form-control" name="account">
<option value="USFSDsdfsFLIJSD656FKLLS5admFOWEJF0SOF">5265241</option>
<option value="LDSOJFksdfo52slkdfjskdfooojoijoijoj56">6524125</option>
</select>
Another method is to set the target option element's selected attribute manually, this prevents you from having to write more code than you need to.
In other words, you can replace ~6 lines of JavaScript with a single HTML attribute.
This is also great if you only want to set the default value for an HTML "<select>" element.
For example:
<select id="account" class="form-control" name="account">
<option value="USFSDsdfsFLIJSD656FKLLS5admFOWEJF0SOF">5265241</option>
<option value="LDSOJFksdfo52slkdfjskdfooojoijoijoj56" selected="selected">6524125</option>
</select>
UPDATE: I just saw that you included a jQuery snippet in comments section of T.J. Crowder's post.
If you are using jQuery then you can use the :contains selector and the jQuery.fn.attr method to select the target option and set it's selected attribute:
$("option:contains('6524125')").attr("selected", true);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select id="account" class="form-control" name="account">
<option value="USFSDsdfsFLIJSD656FKLLS5admFOWEJF0SOF">5265241</option>
<option value="LDSOJFksdfo52slkdfjskdfooojoijoijoj56" selected="selected">6524125</option>
</select>
If you'd like to remove the selected attributes from the target element's siblings, then you'd use the jQuery.fn.siblings and jQuery.fn.removeAttr methods, like this:
$("option:contains('6524125')").attr("selected", true).siblings().removeAttr("selected");
NOTE: for more information on the forEach method, visit this link.
Good luck.
