Can't get a SELECT box to pre-fill in jQuery mobile?

Can't get a SELECT box to pre-fill in jQuery mobile?

Hi,

I'm trying to get a VERY basic SELECT box to pre-fill based  on a saved value in my page.

  1.                    <select name="Language" id="Language">
  2.                       <option value="english">english</option>
  3.                       <option value="french">french</option>
  4.                    </select>

Trying to set it using:

  1. $("#Language").val("french");

For some reason its doesn't wanna work (yet its working fine in a JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/youradds/rXvAL/ )

Anyone got any suggestions? I've tried literally everything (filter(), name=xx value=xxx)

TIA

Andy