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

 1// Before Laravel 9:
 2<select name="country">
 3    <option value="India" {{ old('country') ?? $country == 'India' ? 'selected' : '' }}>India</option>
 4    <option value="Pakistan" {{ old('country') ?? $country == 'Pakistan' ? 'selected' : '' }}>Pakistan</option>
 5</select>
 6 
 7// Laravel 9
 8<select name="country">
 9    <option value="India" @selected(old('country') ?? $country == 'India')>India</option>
10    <option value="Pakistan" @selected(old('country') ?? $country == 'Pakistan')>Pakistan</option>
11</select>

Tip given by @VijayGoswami