Need advice with html tag

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Need some help, trying to make the "Choose your Installments plant" text as selected so is the default text that my customers will see before choosing from a dropdown the number of installments.

html = "<p><select class=\'installments-box\'><option value=\'-1\'>Choose your Installments plan</option>";

Add the [`selected` attribute](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/option#Attributes)? — Sebastian Simon, Jul 12 '18 at 17:04
Possible duplicate of [How can I set the default value for an HTML — Sebastian Simon, Jul 12 '18 at 17:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '18 at 17:07

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Use the selected attribute on the <option> that you want to be selected by default.

answered Jul 12 '18 at 17:07

Charles Stover

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 12 '18 at 17:12

It's not necessary to set the selected attribute to make a select tag display the first option by default.

Simply omit the value attribute from the first option, or set it to an empty string and the select will display the first option as selected.

Pen: https://codepen.io/alsoicode/pen/jpPxgx

Need advice with html tag

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