Drop down fields 'required' is at conflict with their natural funciton

So, the drop down fields apparently cannot be “required” AND have the first option be “please select” because if you make the first drop down option “please select” it sees that as an entry and submits the form & bypasses the “required” choice. It should not. You should be able to have the first option be “select one” or “make a selection” or something and NOT have that seen by the required option setting as an actual selection by the user. As it is now, your drop downs are seen as just empty as the first choice because an empty first choice is the only way to make a drop down be “required’ and still have it work and force the user to select an option.

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