Jquery Mobile - Unable to select the specific item from dropdown

Question

I have a jquery mobile list. This list is populated with data.

I want to select a default item dynamically (through jquery).

This question has been asked many times but I have tried all the resolutions given but unable to figure out this problem.

The code is here http://jsfiddle.net/nMR85/2/

Answer 1

One thing i noticed is that you had two ids for your select menu. I also changed your JQuery to $('#select-choice-a').val('Africa/Tunis').selectmenu('refresh'); Here is a jsFiddle showing it works http://jsfiddle.net/codaniel/nMR85/4/