jquery: how to append elements to emtpy object
<p>I want to create a set of options, that will be appended to every select in grid column  </p>

<pre><code>&lt;option&gt; option 1 &lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option&gt; option 2 &lt;/option&gt;
...
&lt;option&gt; option N &lt;/option&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>but I don't know how to create a set of elements without parent element.</p>

<p>appending to an empty jquery object doesn't work</p>

<pre><code>var options = $('');
options.append('&lt;option&gt;&lt;/option&gt;')
</code></pre>
