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Hi,

If you add a field to the registration profile which is a drop-down list and you would like the first item to be ‘Please select an option’ *and* you mark the field as required, users do not have to do anything.

They are not forced to ‘select an option’.

This is because when generating the HTML <option> code, a value is placed there. If, instead, the value was set to “”, then this feature code work.

Look through the code, there is already the notion of ‘is default’. I have a patch which adds the notion of ‘is placeholder’.

Is this wanted in the core?

Thanks,
Anand

p.s. also created in trac http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5184