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    <p>I think you're overthinking this. </p> <p>Just add an extra option to the <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> - i.e. a literal value, not something PHP generates - before you add all the other values from the database. Give it a value like "0" or "NotSelected", then check for that in your validation routines.</p> <p>Oh, and as an unrelated issue, don't do this:</p> <pre><code>$selectedKey = $_GET['selected_key']; $query = "SELECT * FROM `1 received` WHERE Key = '".$selectedKey."'"; </code></pre> <p>You're opening yourself to SQL injections. If you don't know what that is, look it up. You should be using prepared/parameterized queries for this. Both the PDO and mysqli extensions have this capability, so you should be using one of those instead of the mysql extension, which has been deprecated (i.e. "this will be removed from the language soon, so stop using it") in the latest version of PHP.</p> <hr> <p>Update:</p> <p>Based on the fact that you're updating the HTML directly using an AJAX request to get new content for the <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> element, you need to move the <code>&lt;option&gt;</code> item I mentioned to be part of the script you call in your AJAX request.</p> <p>Specifically, you should do it directly before your <code>foreach</code> loop:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $selectedKey = $_GET['selected_key']; // DO SOME VALIDATION ON $selectedKey here // Remember what I said about SQL injection and using mysqli/PDO $query = "SELECT * FROM `1 received` WHERE Key = '".$selectedKey."'"; $run = mysql_query($query); echo "&lt;option value='NotSelected'&gt;Select Contract&lt;/option&gt;"; while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($run)) { echo "&lt;option value='".$row['Number']."'&gt;".$row['Number']."&lt;/option&gt;"; } ?&gt; </code></pre>
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    1. COWell I am trying to add one <select> by myself, but the dropdown is generated in a different file and thats what confuses me.
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    2. CO@user1914940 - I think you need to clarify what you mean by the drop down being generated in a different file.
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    3. CO@user1914940 It doesn't matter where the rest of the `<option>` elements are generated. Since this `<option>` needs to be the first one, you can just add it directly after the `<select>`.
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