title: Add blank option to top of select and make it the selected option in IE
body: <p>HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="dropdown"&gt;
    &lt;option value="volvo"&gt;Volvo&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="saab"&gt;Saab&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="mercedes"&gt;Mercedes&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="audi"&gt;Audi&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>jQuery:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#dropdown").prepend("&lt;option value='' selected='selected'&gt;&lt;/option&gt;");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run this in FireFox or Chrome, the drop down has the newly inserted blank option selected. When I run it in IE8, it still has Volvo selected. Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/YFu2h/" rel="noreferrer">http://jsfiddle.net/YFu2h/</a></p>