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HTML
<select size="1" id="D1">
</select>
JavaScript
$("select#D1").append( $("<option>")
.val("value")
.html("text to be displayed")
);
<select size="1" id="D1">
</select>
$("select#D1").append( $("<option>")
.val("value")
.html("text to be displayed")
);