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Selected blade directive

In Laravel 9+, you'll be able to use the cool new "selected" Blade directive for HTML select elements.

This is going to be a nice addition that we can use to clean up our Blade views a little bit

// Before Laravel 9:
<select name="country">
<option value="India" {{ old('country') ?? $country == 'India' ? 'selected' : '' }}>India</option>
<option value="Pakistan" {{ old('country') ?? $country == 'Pakistan' ? 'selected' : '' }}>Pakistan</option>
</select>
 
// Laravel 9
<select name="country">
<option value="India" @selected(old('country') ?? $country == 'India')>India</option>
<option value="Pakistan" @selected(old('country') ?? $country == 'Pakistan')>Pakistan</option>
</select>

Tip given by @VijayGoswami

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