title: retaining selected dropdown option on postback
body: <p>How do I retain whatever was selected from the dropdown even after page refresh so user knows what he/she selected using jquery? or javascript?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="hospitalDropDown" onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_top')"&gt; 
        &lt;option disabled="disabled"&gt;Select Hospital&lt;/option&gt; 
        &lt;option value="http://mysite.com/events/Pages/default1.aspx"&gt;All Hospitals&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value="http://mysite.com/events/Pages/default1.aspx?hos=Dyer"&gt;Dyer&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value="http://mysite.com/events/Pages/default1.aspx?hos=Carmel"&gt;Carmel&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>