title: How to select from option menu in javascript
body: <p>I need to be able to change certain option from select menu to be as default (start) value when I do something.</p>
  
  <p>For example when I declare it, English language is default value.</p>
  
  <p>How to change that with the code and not with the click.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action=""&gt;
  &lt;select name="websites1" id="websites1" style="width:120px" tabindex="1"&gt;
      &lt;option value="english" selected="selected"  title="images/us.gif"&gt;English&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="espanol" title="images/es.gif"&gt;Espanol&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="italian" title="images/it.gif"&gt;Italiano&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the body tag I have declared:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  $(document).ready(function() {
  $("body select").msDropDown();
  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using this <a href="http://www.marghoobsuleman.com/jquery-image-dropdown" rel="nofollow">SCRIPT</a></p>
  
  <p>I have tried all of the bellow examples and none this is good for me.</p>
  
  <p>What else can I do change default select value.</p>