What is the default option of a select element when none is selected?

[DaveGWork]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/select

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

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What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

You can include a selected attribute on an element to make it selected by default when the page first loads.

The above section is incomplete.
What is the default selected element when no selected default is supplied?

What did you expect to see?

The first element will be selected as the default if none is specified.

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• Folder: en-us/web/html/element/select
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/select
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/html/element/select/index.md
• Last commit: 816cc4d
• Document last modified: 2024-10-11T12:51:34.000Z