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HTML

<select id="id">
        <option value="foo">foo</option>
        <option value="bar">bar</option>
        <option value="baz">baz</option>
    </select>

    <select id="id2">
        <option value="foo">foo</option>
        <option value="bar">bar</option>
        <option value="baz">baz</option>
    </select>

    <select id="id3">
        <option value="foo">foo</option>
        <option value="bar">bar</option>
        <option value="baz">baz</option>
    </select>

CSS

select { font-size:50px; }

JavaScript

$('#id').val('foo');
$('#id2').val('bar');
$('#id3').val('baz');