title: Default option for <select> in MVC 5
body: <p>I am using <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> like this in an ASP.NET MVC 5 app:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
    &lt;label for="sel1" class="text-primary"&gt;Select Static Analysis Tool&lt;/label&gt;
    &lt;select class="form-control" name="ToolName" id="sel1" required&gt;
      @foreach(var item in ViewBag.ToolList)
      {
        &lt;option&gt;@item&lt;/option&gt;
      }
    &lt;/select&gt;
    &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit" class="btn btn-default btn-primary btn-lg" /&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to have a default text like <code>Please Select</code> in the <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> menu. How can I get that?</p>