Test case for jQuery Ticket 8176
appendTo should accept 'context' parameter
by jitter
HTML
<div id="page">
<select id="country">
</select>
</div>
<!-- You suck if you don't get the joke -->
JavaScript
var countries = [ "Jamaica", "Qatar", "Uruguay", "Estonia", "Russia", "Yemen" ];
var page = $("#page"),
sel = $("#country", page);
;
for (var i = 0; i < countries.length; i++) {
$("<option>").text( countries[ i ] ).appendTo( sel );
}