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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:

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  1. <select name="test">
  2. <option value="Test 1">Test 1</option>
  3. <option value="Test 2">Test 2</option>
  4. <option value="Test 3" selected>Test 3</option>
  5. </select>

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?
Last edited by nathanpacker; Jan 8th, 2007 at 7:33 pm.
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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"
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Click to Expand / Collapse  Quote 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"
Lol, well, I don't know enough to stay XHTML valid, but if I know it I will, so thanks for the info.
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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.
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Click to Expand / Collapse  Quote 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.
Well, to be honest, after I read your reply, I went back to go change it, and I decided to look at the page one more time, and it was working! I have no idea why. So I didn't change it. Maybe I'll change it just to please our curiosity now...
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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.
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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!
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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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yes you are correct, i edited content on the page and the content change but for whatever reason it doesn't refresh the form fields from the options you had last selected. i guess some would find this feature cool so they don't have to keep refilling forms out.
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Whether or not to clear fields is a setting.
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