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[web] Setting SELECT default choice

Started by Tac-Tics Jun 7, 2006 at 8:49 AM 3 replies 750+ views

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Jun 7, 2006 at 8:49 AM

If I have a script wih a SELECT-style dropdown menu and the user enters, let's say, an invalid e-mail address, and hits submit, I want to return back to the script with each field displaying what the user had entered previously. I can do this for text forms easily with value="", but how do I do this with a SELECT/OPTION combo?

twanvl

Jun 7, 2006 at 8:56 AM

<option selected>blah blah</option>

See the specs for more information

Tac-Tics

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Tac-Tics

Jun 7, 2006 at 9:00 AM

Thanks

Tesseract

Jun 7, 2006 at 11:33 AM

Newer browsers will require you to set the default selected tag as follows:

<select><option selected="selected">stuff</option></select>

tstrimp

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tstrimp

Jun 7, 2006 at 5:11 PM

Quote:
Original post by Tesseract
Newer browsers will require you to set the default selected tag as follows:
<select><option selected="selected">stuff</option></select>

Not newer browsers, newer doctypes. Namely xhtml.

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