Good day!

I am having a problem with the select box in html. I am on the EDIT portion of my simple CRUD project and before users can edit, the chosen data will be shown first and I retrieved it in the database through the servlet.

Now I want the data I retrieve be the one SELECTED (default) in my select box. ${product.category}

<select size="1" name="category">
        <option value ="1">Dogs</option>
        <option value ="2">Cats</option>
        <option value ="5">Others</option>
</select>

I tried inserting it like this but it doesn't work.

<select size="1" name="category" selected=${product.category}>
        <option value ="1">Dogs</option>
        <option value ="2">Cats</option>
        <option value ="5">Others</option>
</select>

I want to do something like this.. If (${product.category}==1), selected=option 1...

I've seen something like THIS in one of the forums but it is in PHP format. How can I do it using JSP?

Thank you very much.

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