title: How do i eliminate a value from dropdown if it is auto populated
body: <p>My jsp dropdown list looks like</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;select name="dropdown1"
              name="authority_name"&gt;
              &lt;option value="DEFAULT_VALUE"&gt; &lt;c:out value="${user[1]}" /&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option value="ROLE_USER"&gt;USER&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option value="ROLE_INSTRUCTOR"&gt;INSTRUCTOR&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option value="ROLE_ADMIN"&gt;ADMINISTRATOR /&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, if i have the default value populated as USER i would like to eliminate it from the drop down list and only display the other 2 options along with default value. Is there any way i can do this?</p>