Possible to specify default selected option?

[khughitt]

Greetings!

I was wondering if there is a way to indicate which option should be selected and displayed in the input, by default?

Based on an earlier issue, it seems like this should be possible, but I couldn't find any examples of how to achieve this.

I tried:

1. setting selected="selected" for the default opt, and,
2. setting the value prop to the value of the desired default

But no luck.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for taking the time to work on this and share it with the community! It's a really useful component :)