HTML Select Tag Operations

How to add a title in html select tag

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18179960/how-to-add-a-title-in-html-select-tag

<select>
    <option selected disabled>Choose one</option>
    <option value="sydney">Sydney</option>
    <option value="melbourne">Melbourne</option>
    <option value="cromwell">Cromwell</option>
    <option value="queenstown">Queenstown</option>
</select>

How to set default value for HTML select element?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3518002/how-to-set-default-value-for-html-select-element

<select name="hall" id="hall">
    <option> 1 </option>
    <option> 2 </option>
    <option selected> 3 </option>
    <option> 4 </option>
    <option> 5 </option>
</select> 

Set selected option of select box

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4680075/set-selected-option-of-select-box

I want to set a option that was selected previously to be displayed on page load. I tried it with the following code:

$("#gate").val('Gateway 2');

with

<select id="gate">
    <option value='null'>- choose -</option>
    <option value='Gateway 1'>Gateway 1</option>
    <option value='Gateway 2'>Gateway 2</option>
</select>

But this does not work. Any ideas?

Answer: 

This definitely should work. Here's a demo. Make sure you have placed your code into a $(document).ready:

$(function() {
    $("#gate").val('Gateway 2');
});