Any idea why echo selected isn't working in mozilla?

[Patrick]

Hi All,

Why does this work in Internet Explorer, but not Mozilla?
I'm reading from a flat file.

As an examle the value of colm1 read from the file is B.

I set in the form page;

<?php $A = 'A'; $B = 'B' ; $C = 'C'; ?>

<select class="inform" name="colm1">
<option value="A" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$A)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
?>>A</option>
<option value="B" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$B)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
?>>B</option>
<option value="C" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$C)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
?>>C</option>
</select>

Thanks for your thoughts,
Patrick

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Ocean Circulation Group – USF - College of Marine Science
http://ocgweb.marine.usf.edu Phone: [phone]

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was. - La Rochefoucauld

[Erwin Moller]

Patrick wrote:

Hi All,

Why does this work in Internet Explorer, but not Mozilla?
I'm reading from a flat file.

As an examle the value of colm1 read from the file is B.

I set in the form page;

<?php $A = 'A'; $B = 'B' ; $C = 'C'; ?>

<select class="inform" name="colm1">
<option value="A" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$A)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
?>>A</option>
<option value="B" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$B)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
?>>B</option>
<option value="C" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$C)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
?>>C</option>
</select>

Thanks for your thoughts,
Patrick

Hi Patrick,

Your setup produces illegal HTML and Explorer doesn't mind appearantly, but
FF does.
The reason it is illegal is that SELECTED has no value.

Good select-box looks like this:
<select name="bla">
<option value="1">1
<option value="2" SELECTED>2
<option value="3">3
</select>

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Patrick]

Erwin Moller wrote:

Patrick wrote:

Hi All,

Why does this work in Internet Explorer, but not Mozilla?
I'm reading from a flat file.

As an examle the value of colm1 read from the file is B.

I set in the form page;

<?php $A = 'A'; $B = 'B' ; $C = 'C'; ?>

<select class="inform" name="colm1">
<option value="A" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$A)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
?>>A</option>
<option value="B" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$B)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
?>>B</option>
<option value="C" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$C)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
?>>C</option>
</select>

Thanks for your thoughts,
Patrick

Hi Patrick,

Your setup produces illegal HTML and Explorer doesn't mind appearantly, but
FF does.
The reason it is illegal is that SELECTED has no value.

Good select-box looks like this:
<select name="bla">
<option value="1">1
<option value="2" SELECTED>2
<option value="3">3
</select>

Regards,
Erwin Moller

Hi Erwin,

Okay so I took echo "selected='$colm1'"; out and just have echo "SELECTED"

Oddly enough if I look at the source from the page it shows that it
should work. It just doesn't turn it to the correct letter on the
dropdown. <scratches head>

<select class="inform" name="colm1">
<option value="A" >A</option>
<option value="B" SELECTED>B</option>
<option value="C" >C</option>
</select>

Patrick
--
Patrick A. Smith Assistant System Administrator
Ocean Circulation Group – USF - College of Marine Science
http://ocgweb.marine.usf.edu Phone: [phone]

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was. - La Rochefoucauld

[Rik]

Patrick wrote:

Erwin Moller wrote:

Patrick wrote:

<select class="inform" name="colm1">
<option value="A" <?php if (strcmp($colm1,$A)==0) echo
"selected='$colm1'";
> A</option>

Your setup produces illegal HTML and Explorer doesn't mind
appearantly, but FF does.
The reason it is illegal is that SELECTED has no value.
Good select-box looks like this:
<select name="bla">
<option value="1">1
<option value="2" SELECTED>2
<option value="3">3
</select>

Okay so I took echo "selected='$colm1'"; out and just have echo
"SELECTED"
Oddly enough if I look at the source from the page it shows that it
should work. It just doesn't turn it to the correct letter on the
dropdown. <scratches head>

<select class="inform" name="colm1">
<option value="A" >A</option>
<option value="B" SELECTED>B</option>
<option value="C" >C</option>
</select>

XHTML perhaps? In which case it should be 'selected="selected"'.

Else, I wouldn't know

The above HTML-code produces correct dropdowns here. That's the exact code
you get from your script?

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus