Question: I have a simple html dropdown box

```
<select class="dr_down">
<option>item1</option>
<option>item2</option>
<option>item3 etc...</option>
</select>

```

What I need to do is show the selected item when the form is edited instead of it defaulting back to the top of the list.

Answer: 
did you try using attribute `selected='true'`
use `selected` atribute to preselect your option e.g.

```
<option selected="selected">item2</option>

```