title: php dropdown population with first option blank
body: <p>can someone tell me is there a possibility to add a "blank option" once the dropdown is populated?</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo '&lt;select name="dropdown" style="width:150px"&gt;';
              while($rec=mysql_fetch_array($run1))
                  {
                  $value = $rec['route'];
                  echo "&lt;option value=\"$value\"&gt;$value&lt;/option&gt;";
                  }
          echo '&lt;/select&gt;';
  </code></pre>