title: Set default value of select using java in Struts 1.x
body: <p>I've come across answers for Struts 2.x but none for struts 1.x.</p>
  
  <p>All I need to do is select a default value on page load using 1.x of an HTML:SELECT tag that uses an optioncollector:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html:select property="status"&gt;
    &lt;html:optionsCollection name="statusList" label="description" value="id" /&gt;
  &lt;/html:select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Seems simple, but I'd like to avoid using javascript for this.</p>