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 <option> 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 −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Select Box Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<p> Select any one:</p>
<form>
<select name = "dropdown">
<option value = "Java" selected>Java</option>
<option value = "Discrete Mathematics">Discrete Mathematics</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Published on 07-Feb-2018 12:43:19
