The "selected" property works just fine in my html, but for some reason it doesn´t in my javascript, and shows a 'blank' in default, without any option selected. What am I missing? The rest of the code works just fine, it´s just the "selected". I´ve also tried with selected="selected".
Thanks in advance.

```
$('#uConex')
    .find('option')
    .remove()
    .end()
    .append('<option value="1">1</option>')
    .append('<option value="2" selected>2</option>')
    .append('<option value="3">3</option>')
    .append('<option value="4">4</option>')
    .val('whatever');

```