title: Dropdown selected in Laravel and Bootstrap
body: <p>I am trying to retrieve data from database and send it to a form as value, but the problem is it shows the first item of the dropdown list. I want the value that comes from the db, appears as selected.</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;!-- Select Service status --&gt;
    &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
      &lt;label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="service_status"&gt;Service Status&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;div class="col-md-4"&gt;
        &lt;select id="service_status" name="service_status" class="form-control" value="{{ $job_account_detail-&gt;service_status }}"&gt;
          &lt;option value="Pending"&gt;Pending&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="Running"&gt;Running&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="Completed"&gt;Completed&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;/select&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>