adding options to dropdownlist using jquery
<p>Im new to jquery, and what im trying to do is add new option to a dropdownlist. Here what I have so far. Could somone explain what im doing wrong?</p>

<pre><code>   &lt;asp:DropDownList ID="drop_company" runat="server"/&gt;

     These dont work:
    $("#drop_company").append($("&lt;option&gt;").val("this"));
    or
    $("#drop_company").append($("&lt;option value="1"&gt;Apple&lt;/option&gt;"));
</code></pre>
