How to preselect a value in a dropdown list of items in HTML forms?

With HTML, you can easily create a simple drop down list of items to get user input in HTML forms. A select box also called drop down box provides an option to list down various options in the form of drop down list.

You can also preselect a value in dropdown list of items in HTML forms. For that, add selected in the tag for the value you want to preselect.

Example

You can try to run the following code to learn how to preselect value in a dropdown list of items works in HTML form ?

   
      
   
   
      
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