Select box with first option empty

Question

Does anybody know how can I set in my select box the first option to empty value?

I\'m getting the data from my DB, and I would like to set the option by default as \"P

Answer 1

This worked for me on Laravel 5.4.

{{ Form::select('agency', $agency, null, [
    'placeholder' => 'Please select ...',
    'class' => 'form-control'
]) }}

Answer 2

There are 2 methods to do this:

{{ Form::select('user', array('default' => 'Please select one option') + $users, 'default') }}

Or

<select>
     <option selected disabled>Please select one option</option>
     @foreach($users as $user)
     <option value="{{ $user->id }}">{{ $user->name }}</option>
     @endforeach
</select>

Answer 3

If you are using the HTML package by LaravelCollective, you do the following..

Form::select('size', array('L' => 'Large', 'S' => 'Small'), null, ['placeholder' => 'Pick a size...']);

Answer 4

I found that 'default'=>'Please select' doesn't work with the HTML5 required attribute. This does work:

$listOfValues = [1 => 'Choice 1'];
Form::select('fieldname',[null=>'Please Select'] + $listOfValues);

If you don't like modern PHP syntax,

$listOfValues = array(1 => 'Choice 1');
$listOfValues[null] = 'Please Select';
Form::select('fieldname', $listOfValues);

But the point is to have a label for the null value.

Answer 5

In the view

{!! Form::select('qualification_level', $qualification , old('Qualification_Level'), ['class' => 'form-control select2', 'placeholder' => '']) !!}

In the Controller $qualification = \App\Qualification::pluck('name','id')->prepend('Please Select');

Answer 6

in controller

$data['options']=Entity::pluck('name','id')->prepend('Please Select','');

return view('your_view_blade',$data);

in view blade

{!! Form::select('control_name',$options,null,['class'=>'your_class']) !!}