title: can't see the result in the select area
body: <p>I can't see the result in the select area </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  require 'config.php';
      $query = "SELECT cat_id, category FROM categories LIMIT 1";
      $result = mysqli_query($con,$query);
      if(!$result){
         echo 'Query failed : '.mysqli_error();
         exit(0);
      } 
                          while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
                              echo '&lt;select name="cat_id"&gt;
      ' . $row['cat_id'] . '
      &lt;/select&gt;';
                          }
      mysqli_close($con);
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I try to add the HTML <code>select</code> tag but it still isn't working.</p>