AngularJS Example:

HTML

<div ng-app>
  <h2>Todo</h2>
  <div ng-controller="QuarterController">
    <select name="quarter" ng-model="Quarter" ng-selected="Quarter" >
        <option ng-repeat="v in [1,2,3,4]" value="{{v}}">Q{{v}}</option>
    </select>
  </div>
</div>

CSS

</style> <!-- Ugly Hack due to jsFiddle issue: http://goo.gl/BUfGZ --> 
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/css/bootstrap.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.5/angular.min.js"></script>

JavaScript

function QuarterController($scope) {
    $scope.Quarter = 3;
}