Posted by Els on 11/23/78 11:42

JDS wrote:

> I am confused. I have a list of <OPTIONS>'s and each item in the list has
> a comma. (It is a list on names: "lastn, firstn"). This is a list of
> OPTION's that is in a SELECT MULTIPLE select box.
>
> However, the second part of each item does not appear in the list -- it is
> blank!
>
> Example:
>
> HTML code:
>
> <select multiple size="15" name="user_pool[]" id="user_pool" class="select_pool">
> <option value='160'>Tester,Tester Q.</option>
> <option value='183'>Tester 1 Lastn,Tester 1 Firstn</option>
> <option value='184'>Tester 2 Lastn,Tester 2 Firstn</option>
> </select>
>
> Browser Output (ASCII drawing):
>
> -------------------
>| Tester |
>| Tester 1 Lastn |
>| Tester 2 Lastn |
>| |
>| |
> -------------------

It's not the HTML. I just tried it locally, and the commas and text
after the commas appear as expected.
I'm guessing you are using some kind of CMS or scripting to write this
code to the website? Try escaping the commas maybe?

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