HTMLOptionElement: defaultSelected property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The defaultSelected property of the HTMLOptionElement interface specifies the default selected state of the element. This property reflects the <option> element's selected attribute. The presence of the selected attribute sets the defaultSelected property to true.

Value

A boolean.

Examples

js
const optionElement = document.getElementById("water");
console.log(optionElement.defaultSelected);

Specifications

Specification

HTML
# dom-option-defaultselected

Browser compatibility

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