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

See also