How do you set a default value with jquery auto complete combobox?

Question

When using the jquery ui autocomplete combobox, can you set a default value for the combobox?

Answer 1

I have an answer that worked for my implementation of the jquery UI combobox. Somewhere in the middle of the code was this:

.val(value)

I changed it to:

.val(select.val())

and presto, the initial value of the underlying textbox appeared. Seems to me like this should be the default functionality, but what do I know?