Parse Error when description contains html tags like <select>

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5. [default select option as blank](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8605516/default-select-option-as-blank)

    **tags**: html
            
    235 **votes**, 9 **answers** and 284713 **views**

    > \r\n            I have a very weird requirement, wherein I am required to have no option selected by default in drop down menu in HTML. However,\n\nI cannot use this,\n\n<select>\n    <option></option>\n  ...\r\n        

    
6. [uncaught syntaxerror unexpected token U JSON](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13022178/uncaught-syntaxerror-unexpected-token-u-json)

    **tags**: json
            
    189 **votes**, 7 **answers** and 167853 **views**

    > \r\n            I get this error "uncaught syntaxerror unexpected token U" when I run my page in chrome. And in firefox I get, "JSON.parse: unexpected character". I'm returning the json data from a php file and the ...\r\n       

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5. default select option as blank

   tags: html

   235 votes, 9 answers and 284713 views

   \r\n I have a very weird requirement, wherein I am required to have no option selected by default in drop down menu in HTML. However,\n\nI cannot use this,\n\n\n \n ...\r\n uncaught syntaxerror unexpected token U JSON tags: json 189 votes, 7 answers and 167853 views \r\n I get this error "uncaught syntaxerror unexpected token U" when I run my page in chrome. And in firefox I get, "JSON.parse: unexpected character". I'm returning the json data from a php file and the ...\r\n