default select option as blank

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I have a very weird requirement  wherein I am required to have no option selected by default in drop down menu in HTML  However   I cannot use this    x000D   x000D   lt select gt  x000D     lt option gt  lt  option gt  x000D     lt option gt Option 1 lt  option gt  x000D     lt option gt Option 2 lt  option gt  x000D     lt option gt Option 3 lt  option gt  x000D   lt  select gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Because  for this I will have to do validation to handle the first option  Can anyone help me in achieving this target without actually including the first option as part of the select tag

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For those who are using  lt select multiple gt   combobox  no dropdown   this worked for me   x000D   x000D   lt select size 1 disabled multiple gt     lt option hidden selected gt  lt  option gt     lt option gt My Option lt  option gt   lt  select gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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If you don t need any empty option at first  try this first line       lt option style  quot display none quot  gt  lt  option gt

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Maybe this will be helpful   lt select gt       lt option disabled selected value gt  -- select an option --  lt  option gt       lt option gt Option 1 lt  option gt       lt option gt Option 2 lt  option gt       lt option gt Option 3 lt  option gt   lt  select gt    -- select an option -- Will be displayed by default  But if you choose an option you will not be able select it back   You can also hide it using by adding an empty option   lt option style  display none  gt   so it won t show up in the list anymore   Option 2  If you don t want to write CSS and expect the same behaviour of the solution above  just use    lt option hidden disabled selected value gt  -- select an option --  lt  option gt

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Try this    lt select gt       lt option value    gt  amp nbsp       lt option gt Option 1      lt option gt Option 2      lt option gt Option 3  lt  select gt    Validates in HTML5  Works with required attribute in select element  Can be re-selected  Works in Google Chrome 45  Internet Explorer 11  Edge  Firefox 41

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Solution that works by only using CSS    A  Inline CSS   x000D   x000D   lt select gt  x000D       lt option style  display none   gt  lt  option gt  x000D       lt option gt Option 1 lt  option gt  x000D       lt option gt Option 2 lt  option gt  x000D       lt option gt Option 3 lt  option gt  x000D   lt  select gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    B  CSS Style Sheet  If you have a CSS file at hand  you can target the first option using     x000D   x000D  select first-opt-hidden option first-of-type   x000D    display none  x000D    x000D   lt select class  first-opt-hidden  gt  x000D       lt option gt  lt  option gt  x000D       lt option gt Option 1 lt  option gt  x000D       lt option gt Option 2 lt  option gt  x000D       lt option gt Option 3 lt  option gt  x000D   lt  select gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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Today  2015-02-25   This is valid HTML5 and sends a blank  not a space  to the server    lt option label     gt  lt  option gt    Verified validity on http   validator w3 org check  Verified behavior with Win7 IE11 IE10 IE9 IE8 FF35 Safari5 1  Ubuntu14 10 Chrome40  FF35  OSX Yosemite Safari8  Chrome40  Android Samsung-Galaxy-S5   The following also passes validation today  but passes some sort of space character too the server from most browsers  probably not desirable  and a blank on others  Chrome40 Linux passes a blank     lt option gt  amp  160  lt  option gt    Previously  2013-08-02   According to my notes  the non-breaking-space entity inside the option tags shown above produced the following error in 2013      Error  W3C Markup Validaton Service  Public   The first child option   element of a select element with a required attribute and without a   multiple attribute  and whose size is 1  must have either an empty   value attribute  or must have no text content    At that time  a regular space was valid XHTML4 and sent a blank  not a space  to the server from every browser    lt option gt   lt  option gt    Future  It would make my heart glad if the spec was updated to explicitly allow a blank option   Preferably using the briefest syntax   Either of the following would be great    lt option   gt   lt option gt  lt  option gt    Test File   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt   lt head gt     lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset UTF-8    gt     lt title gt Test lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt     lt form action  index html  method  post  gt       lt select name  sel  gt         lt option label     gt  lt  option gt       lt  select gt     lt  form gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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I m using Laravel 5 framework and  Gambi  s answer worked for me as well but with some changes for my project   I have the option values in a database table and I use them with a foreach statement  But before the statement I have added an option with  Gambit suggested settings and it worked   Here my exemple    isset  keys     lt select gt       lt option  disabled selected value gt  lt  option gt       foreach  keys as  key         lt option gt    key- gt value  lt  option gt       endforeach    lt  select gt   endisset    I hope this helps someone as well  Keep up the good work

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I found it really interesting because I just experienced the same thing not so long time ago  However  I came across to an example on the Internet about the solution regarding this   Without any further ado  see the code fragment below    lt select gt    lt option value data-isdefault  true  gt --Choose one Option-- lt  option gt    lt option gt Option 1 lt  option gt    lt option gt Option 2 lt  option gt    lt option gt Option 3 lt  option gt   lt  select gt    With that  it will stay un-submittable but selectable  anytime  More convenience for User Interface and great for User Experience   Well that s all  I hope it helps  Cheers

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Try this    lt h2 gt Favorite color lt  h2 gt   lt select name  color  gt   lt option value    gt  lt  option gt   lt option gt Pink lt  option gt   lt option gt Red lt  option gt   lt option gt Blue lt  option gt   lt  select gt    The first option in the drop down would be blank

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just use  quot   option hidden selected   quot  as default option

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This should help     https   www w3schools com tags att select required asp   x000D   x000D    lt form gt  x000D    lt select required gt  x000D     lt option value    gt None lt  option gt  x000D     lt option value  volvo  gt Volvo lt  option gt  x000D     lt option value  saab  gt Saab lt  option gt  x000D     lt option value  mercedes  gt Mercedes lt  option gt  x000D     lt option value  audi  gt Audi lt  option gt  x000D   lt  select gt  x000D   lt button type  submit  gt Submit lt  button gt  x000D   lt  form gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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Just a small remark   some Safari browsers do not seem to respect neither the  hidden  attribute nor the style setting  display none   tested with Safari 12 1 under MacOS 10 12 6   Without an explicit placeholder text  these browsers simply show an empty first line in the list of options  It may therefore be useful to always provide some explanatory text for this  dummy  entry    lt option hidden disabled selected value gt  select an option  lt  option gt    Thanks to the  disabled  attribute  it won t be actively selected anyway

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You could use Javascript to achieve this  Try the following code   HTML   lt select id  myDropdown  gt             lt option gt Option 1 lt  option gt            lt option gt Option 2 lt  option gt            lt option gt Option 3 lt  option gt        lt  select gt     JS  document getElementById  myDropdown   selectedIndex   -1    or JQuery      myDropdown   prop  selectedIndex   -1

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There is no HTML solution  By the HTML 4 01 spec  browser behavior is undefined if none of the option elements has the selected attribute  and what browsers do in practice is that they make the first option pre-selected   As a workaround  you could replace the select element by a set of input type radio elements  with the same name attribute   This creates a control of the same kind though with different appearance and user interface  If none of the input type radio elements has the checked attribute  none of them is initially selected in most modern browsers

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x000D   x000D   lt td gt  lt b gt Field Label  lt  b gt  lt br gt       lt select style  align left  width 100    id  some id  name  some name  gt       lt option hidden selected gt Select one    lt  option gt       lt option value  Value1  gt OptLabel1 lt  option gt       lt option value  Value2  gt OptLabel2 lt  option gt       lt option value  Value3  gt OptLabel3 lt  option gt  lt  select gt   lt  td gt  x000D   x000D   x000D   Just put  quot hidden quot  on option you want to hide on dropdown list

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I understand what you are trying to do The best and the most successful way is     lt select name  department  required gt      lt option value    gt None lt  option gt      lt option value  Teaching  gt Teaching department lt  option gt      lt option value  nonTeaching  gt Non-teaching department lt  option gt    lt  select gt

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In order to show please select a value in drop down and hide it after some value is selected   please use the below code    it will also support required validation    x000D   x000D   lt select class  form-control  required gt  x000D   lt option disabled selected value style  display none   gt --Please select a value lt  option gt  x000D                 lt option  gt Data 1 lt  option gt  x000D                 lt option  gt Data 2 lt  option gt  x000D                 lt option  gt Data 3 lt  option gt  x000D   lt  select gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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lt select required gt     lt option value    disabled selected gt None lt  option gt     lt option value  volvo  gt Volvo lt  option gt     lt option value  saab  gt Saab lt  option gt     lt option value  mercedes  gt Mercedes lt  option gt     lt option value  audi  gt Audi lt  option gt   lt  select gt    You can avoid custom validation in this case

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If you are using Angular  2     or any other framework   you could add some logic  The logic would be  only display an empty option if the user did not select any other yet  So after the user selected an option  the empty option disappears   For Angular  9  this would look something like this    lt select gt       lt option  ngIf   hasOptionSelected    async      false  gt  lt  option gt       lt option  ngFor  let option of  options    async  value   option id  gt    option title    lt  option gt   lt  select gt

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