Pre=Populating drop down menus

[murtazac]

Hi,
i have a form that i want to pre-populate from a bean.
the following works fine w. text boxes:
<html:text name="user" property="city"/>,

but i also need to prepopulate a drop down drop for State.
right now it always displays teh default which is alabama.
so how do i go around displaying the information thats stored in teh bean, instead of the default?

thanks,
Murtaza