Jquery - Setting a select list option by id

Question

I feel like this should not be this complicated, but I'm sure I'm missing something trivial. Thanks for anyone that can help!

XSL:

<select id="mySelectList">
  <option id="1" description="Blue" />
  <option id="2" description="Black" />
  <option id="3" description="Green" />
</select>

JS:

$("#mySelectList option[id='1']").attr("selected", "selected");

EDIT: Fixed my select per Nick's response.

Answer 1

A <select> should look like:

<select id="mySelectList">

Or if you literally want the element and that's XML, remove the # for an element selector, like this:

$("mySelectList option[id='1']").attr("selected", "selected");