title: jquery populate select list
body: <p>I have this in my htm file</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;select id="SelItem"&gt;
  
      &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Within my javascript file I have a section for jquery I have the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>     var itemval= '&lt;option value="OT"&gt;OT&lt;/option&gt;';
  
       $("#SelItem").html(itemval);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Wouldn't the following populate my drop down with OT?
  It does not populate anything in the drop down</p>