in reply to how to define selected option in select option menu in template toolkit from hash

just need to conditionally make one of them be like <option value="foo" SELECTED>foo</select> like this:
[% FOREACH option = element.enum %] <option value="[% option %]" [% 'SELECTED' IF option == elemen +t.default %] > [% option %] </option> [% END %]