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HTML

<select id="practice_id" name="practice" column="practice" style="width: 200px">
 <option value="">Default</option>
 <option value="1">Test 1</option>
 <option value="2">Test 2</option>
 <option value="3">Test 3</option>
</select>

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
$("#practice_id").children().val("-99");
});