title: How do make the first option in my drop down menu have no value?
body: <p>I have a drop down menu that sends emails to different departments in a company based on user selection. I need the first option in the menu, the "Select Department", to have no value, so users cannot select it, they must choose a department. </p>
  
  <p>Here is my PHP:</p>
  
  <pre><code>// config
  $emailAddresses = array(
  
  'Select Department'=&gt;'',
  'Service Department'=&gt;'blahblah1@gmail.com',
  'Sales Department'=&gt;'blahblah2@gmail.com',
  'Parts Department'=&gt;'blahblah3@gmail.com',
  'Customer Service Department'=&gt;'blahblah4@gmail.com',
  'Bids Department'=&gt;'blahblah5@gmail.com'
  
   // etc etc
   );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class='container'&gt;
  &lt;label for='destemail' &gt;Select department you're trying to reach: &lt;font style="color:#f93;  margin-left:-2px; "&gt;*&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/br&gt;
  &lt;select name="destemail" id="destemail"&gt;
  &lt;?php foreach ($emailAddresses as $name =&gt; $email) { ?&gt;
  &lt;option value="&lt;?php echo htmlspecialchars($name); ?&gt;"&gt;
  &lt;?php echo htmlspecialchars($name) ; ?&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;?php } ?&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;span id='contactus_destemail_errorloc' class='error'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Help much appreciated! Thanks</p>