From 1b67aaee74c9b683ac31893b40077abd62e6d8c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jeresig <jeresig@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:28:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure that the correct value is retreived for options
 that have no value specified, in IE 6. Continues to fix #5697.

---
 src/attributes.js | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/attributes.js b/src/attributes.js
index eecf90fa90..663d660f42 100644
--- a/src/attributes.js
+++ b/src/attributes.js
@@ -164,7 +164,9 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
 				var values = jQuery.makeArray(val);
 
 				jQuery( "option", this ).each(function() {
-					this.selected = jQuery.inArray( this.value, values ) >= 0;
+					// IE 6 will return "" for the value if one isn't specified, instead of the text
+					var node = this.getAttributeNode("value");
+					this.selected = jQuery.inArray( node && node.specified ? node.value : this.value || this.text, values ) >= 0;
 				});
 
 				if ( !values.length ) {