# Selecting a list item in JavaScript

In previous lessons, we accessed the `select` tag to get or change the selected list item. It's not really necessary. After all, you can directly set the property `selected` of some `option` tag to `true`.

For example, let's make the list item with number two selected:

`let select = document.querySelector('#select'); let option = select[2]; option.selected = true;`

Given a dropdown list and a button. By clicking on the button, make selected the last item in the list.

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