Anyone know how to write select in HTML to make firefox "select" an item?
[HTML]
<select id="something" name="something">
<option value="1">one</option>
<option value="2" selected>two</option>
<option value="3">three</option>
</select>
[/HTML]
of coarse, by looking at it, anyone would assume that "Two" will be the selectedIndex. however, in firefox it seems to be ignored. :\
i've also tried selected="selected" to be W3C compient, and selected="true" and in all cases, IE works, and FireFox ignores.
thoughts?
Thanks
Echo
/FireFox 2.0.0.4
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hi ...
i cannot see this problem ... tested your select-markup with a 2.0.0.3 on mac and 2.0.0.4 on win ... they do it right ... (used selected and selected='true' too)
kind regards
actually, it looks like it has something to do with FireFox attempting to be helpful and holding onto the selection from the last page load :\
blah... thanks though
Works fine for me, too.
Yeah, for me too.
But the correct way to do it is this: selected="selected", not "true".
That's the W3C standard for it, try it, it should work. Anyway, for me, it works in any of the ways mentioned.
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Yeah, for me too.
But the correct way to do it is this: selected="selected", not "true".
That's the W3C standard for it, try it, it should work. Anyway, for me, it works in any of the ways mentioned.
;) now we have to clear that ... since you instist on a w3c-standard.
first have a look at the w3c-html4-spec: w3c HTML4 - attribute 'selected'
that states that when the boolean attribute 'selected' is set for an option ... this should be preselected. so with that you may set the attribute without a value or with a value whatever you want ... it only has to be set.
when you have a look at the XHTML-DTD then you are right ... XHTML 1.0 - strict
when you set the attribute 'selected' its value must be 'selected' too ...
in either way it works as a 'boolean'-attribute ... when set it causes preselection and when not set ... nothing happens ;)
kind regards ...
;) now we have to clear that ... since you instist on a w3c-standard.
first have a look at the w3c-html4-spec:
w3c HTML4 - attribute 'selected'
that states that when the boolean attribute 'selected' is set for an option ... this should be preselected. so with that you may set the attribute without a value or with a value whatever you want ... it only has to be set.
when you have a look at the XHTML-DTD then you are right ...
XHTML 1.0 - strict
when you set the attribute 'selected' its value must be 'selected' too ...
in either way it works as a 'boolean'-attribute ... when set it causes preselection and when not set ... nothing happens ;)
kind regards ...
Yepp, you're right, I'm used to code in xhtml 1.0 Strict.
since you instist on a w3c-standard.
Who doesn't? All markup MUST be.
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Who doesn't? All markup MUST be.
of course ... but the two i mentioned are different, and when you say 'the w3c standard' ... then you should mention which one you mean ... HTML/XHTML etc. ... as i said ... when you write your code according to HTML-spec ... then its valid to put whatever value to the 'selected'-attribute you want ... even if you put no value at all ... its valid ... in case of XHTML it is not ;) ... then it has to be 'selected' too ... and using the w3c as proof ... you should be more precise as we can see ...
kind regards ...
actually, it looks like it has something to do with FireFox attempting to be helpful and holding onto the selection from the last page load :\
blah... thanks though
I'm sorry, I totally missed this response!
And yes, when you refresh a page in Firefox, all inputs remain as the time before the refreshing, but IE clears all out.
I don't know if there's a way to override that functionality in Firefox, anyway I really find the Firefox way more usefull when testing things with forms, so I don't have to fill it up over and over again, specially in large forms. ;)
See ya!
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