Posted by Patrick on 06/09/06 15:30

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
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