title: JQuery refresh select box
body: <p>I am populating a select field using JQuery on page load using this method</p>
  <pre><code> $('#select').append('&lt;option value=&quot;' + result + '&quot;&gt;' + result + '&lt;/option&gt;'); 
  </code></pre>
  <p>However this leaves the select box 'blank', i.e the first value in the options list is not preselected as the selected option.</p>
  <p>How do I 'refresh' this list so that the first value is preselected?</p>