Vanilla vs JQuery

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Preparation HTML

<select id="select"<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
>

<option> 1 </option> 
<option> 2 </option> 
<option> 3 </option> 

</select>

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vanilla
var select = document.getElementById('select'); 

var option = select.children[2];
ready
jQuery
var select = document.getElementById('select'); 

var option = $('*:nth-child(' + 2 + ')', select);
ready
Variation with jQuery
var select = $('#select'); 

var option = select.children()[2];
ready
variation 2 with jQuery
var select = $('#select'); 

var option = ('*:nth-child(' + 2 + ')', select);
ready

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