title: How to add default text to HTML <select>?
body: <p>I need to add some default text to a HTML <code>select</code> box. The <code>placeholder</code> tag which works with <code>input</code> doesn't seam to work whit this one?</p>
  
  <p>This works</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" placeholder="&lt;?php echo $lang ['your_website']; ?&gt;"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This doesn't work</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;td&gt;&lt;select type="text" placeholder="&lt;?php echo $lang ['select']; ?&gt;"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I fix this?</p>