Dojo ComboBox question

I am trying to add a dijit.form.ComboBox widget to my web page. I have the code below. The problem is that even though I have the value="" attribute explicitly stated in the select tag, when the page renders, the contents of the textbox part of the ComboBox says "Place 1". How do I get this widget to have a blank text field instead? Thanks.Start Free Trial

1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:

<div id="place" class="row">
    <label for="place_select" class="left">Place: </label>
    <select dojoType="dijit.form.ComboBox" id="place_select" class="right" value="">
        <option>Place 1</option>
        <option>Place 2</option>
        <option>Place 3</option>
    </select>
</div>