title: how to display a default option in a dropdown list
body: <p>Given</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;html:select property="loginPathId" style="width:190px"&gt;
      &lt;option value=""&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;html:optionsCollection property="loginPath" value="id" label="displayName"/&gt;
  &lt;/html:select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Right now, it is a dropdown list with an empty default value. how do i populate it by default with say <code>option value=1</code>?</p>
  
  <p>Can this be done <strong>without</strong> using jQuery, and only with struts, java, javascript and html?</p>