how to make a dropdown menu in html code example

Example 1: Dropdown menu HTML

<select id="gender">
  <option value="male"> Male </option>
  <option value="female"> Female</option>
  </select>

Example 2: dropdown in html

<select>
  <option value="actual value 1">Display Text 1</option>
  <option value="actual value 2">Display Text 2</option>
  <option value="actual value 3">Display Text 3</option>
</select>