How set selected in a datalist HTML PHP

Question

Greetings I would like to know if there is a way to set a selected value in a datalist. I would like something like this

<input list="cars" class="form-control" name="caBrands" style="width:300px;">
  <datalist id="cars"  >
     <option selected="selected" value="BMW">
     <option value="Toyota">
     <option value="Mitsubishi">
  </datalist>

Answer 1

The datalist is just an auto-complete list to be used with a textual input element. If you want to pre-set a value, just set the value of the input:

 <input list="cars" value="BMW" class="form-control" name="caBrands" style="width:300px;">
 <datalist id="cars">
 <option value="BMW">
 <option value="Toyota">
 <option value="Mitsubishi">
 </datalist>

If you want to always select a value from a list, you can use a select element. This allows marking one option as selected, but it doesn't allow freeform input:

<select class="form-control" name="caBrands" style="width:300px;">
 <option selected value="BMW">BMW</option>
 <option value="Toyota">Toyota</option>
 <option value="Mitsubishi">Mitsubishi</option>
</select>