title: setting default value for option in html
body: <p>I have the following html code for  yes as default value on page load. but it is not reflecting on the page.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="col-sm-6 col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-lg-6"&gt;
      &lt;label for="headoffice" class="col-sm-6 col-xs-7 col-md-4 col-lg-4 control-label"&gt;Head Office Member&lt;sup class="text-red"&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;div class="col-sm-6 col-xs-12 col-md-8 col-lg-8"&gt;                  
          &lt;select class="multi-select" id="headoffice" name="headoffice" data-placeholder="Head Office Member"&gt;
              &lt;option value=""&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option value="No" selected="selected"&gt;No&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option value="Yes"&gt;Yes&lt;/option&gt; 
          &lt;/select&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt; 
  </code></pre>