scottdarby/Stylish-Select — comment on commit 1ec99309f669bf082b833aab7d859ded20a2ec59
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By scottdarby:

defaultText is relying on an accurate detection of whether the
has the selected attribute in the html, if the
has the attribute selected="selected" the plugin shows the selected value rather than the defaultText variable which is the expected behaviour. It seems that jQuery in Chrome 17 and IE9 (I haven't checked other IE versions) report the first
in the as selected even if the attribute is not set, which causes the defaultText variable to be ignored in favour of the selected option. This doesn't seem to happen in Firefox. I think it may be best to remove this option in favour of the developer putting something like
Please select...
in the html, as this then mimics the behaviour of a standard select box.