title: How to set placeholder first in Select2
body: <p>How can I set placeholders first and not the default value in Select2</p>
  
  <p>I have this HTML code here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select class = "select2" style = "width:100%" id = "selectme"&gt;
       &lt;option value = "oldest"&gt; Person 1&lt;/option&gt;
       &lt;option value = "oldest"&gt; Person 2&lt;/option&gt;
       &lt;option value = "oldest"&gt; Person 3&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And Jquery for Select2 here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#selectme").select2({
      placeholder: "Assign to:",
      allowClear:true
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The example in <a href="https://select2.github.io/examples.html" rel="nofollow">Select2 Documentation</a> works with setting placeholder as the default value first. But in my case the default value is Person 1 and not the placeholder. Why?</p>