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Hey, I'm trying to use a simple select menu, and I would like to set one of the values to be the default, and it works great in IE, but not in firefox. Here is a sample:
Notice that I am trying to get "Test 3" to show up as the default option. It works fine in IE, but how do I get it to work in Firefox too?
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Notice that I am trying to get "Test 3" to show up as the default option. It works fine in IE, but how do I get it to work in Firefox too?
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are you using an HTML or XHTML doctype?
in HTML doctypes it's ok to set boolean attributes without values, in XHTML doctypes it is not.
in XHTML you have got to use:
selected="selected", or selected="yes", or selected="true"
in HTML doctypes it's ok to set boolean attributes without values, in XHTML doctypes it is not.
in XHTML you have got to use:
selected="selected", or selected="yes", or selected="true"
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Originally Posted by MattEvans 
are you using an HTML or XHTML doctype?
in HTML doctypes it's ok to set boolean attributes without values, in XHTML doctypes it is not.
in XHTML you have got to use:
selected="selected", or selected="yes", or selected="true"
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does it work in Firefox if you use one of those atttribute values instead of just 'selected'?
it's not so much a question of staying valid, as being compatible.
an absolutely 'correct' XML parser should reject that line of code and output a warning/error message instead of an expected output. But, Firefox only ever truely parses a page as X(HT)ML if you serve the Content-Type:application/xhtml+xml* header.
* not sure if that's the correct type, it's not an easy one to remember.
it's not so much a question of staying valid, as being compatible.
an absolutely 'correct' XML parser should reject that line of code and output a warning/error message instead of an expected output. But, Firefox only ever truely parses a page as X(HT)ML if you serve the Content-Type:application/xhtml+xml* header.
* not sure if that's the correct type, it's not an easy one to remember.
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Originally Posted by MattEvans
does it work in Firefox if you use one of those atttribute values instead of just 'selected'?
it's not so much a question of staying valid, as being compatible.
an absolutely 'correct' XML parser should reject that line of code and output a warning/error message instead of an expected output. But, Firefox only ever truely parses a page as X(HT)ML if you serve the Content-Type:application/xhtml+xml* header.
* not sure if that's the correct type, it's not an easy one to remember.
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Ok, I just tried it again. And I realized when I said it was working before, it was because I was simply refreshing the page, but apparently Firefox retains all the information, so it didn't matter what had "selected" in the script, it was just selecting the one that was previously selected.
So I closed the window, opened a new one, and realized it wasn't working with just "selected" in the script. When i changed it to selected="yes", it worked.
Thanks.
So I closed the window, opened a new one, and realized it wasn't working with just "selected" in the script. When i changed it to selected="yes", it worked.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot, would have spent hours trying to get it working if it wasn't for this thread.
The outcome: Firefox retains the last value you had a form field at when hitting refresh so to debug/test add "?1" or something similar to the URL to restart from afresh. Ctrl+Refresh doens't even work.
Next of all, 'SELECTED="yes"' worked in the end for me.
Thanks again!
The outcome: Firefox retains the last value you had a form field at when hitting refresh so to debug/test add "?1" or something similar to the URL to restart from afresh. Ctrl+Refresh doens't even work.
Next of all, 'SELECTED="yes"' worked in the end for me.
Thanks again!
From what I know, Shift-Refresh will force most Mozilla browsers to grab a new copy of a page from the server rather than cache.
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