Posted by Geoff Berrow on 01/27/06 01:19

Message-ID: <1138304115.016073.301240@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> from
Blockhead contained the following:

>
>A common mistake however is that when creating a menu, most people
>forget to actually assign a value to each option, so even though
>various menu choices appear to the user, when they click submit, a NULL
>or empty value is submitted with the form.
>
>This will look right on the screen but not not work properly:
><select name="menu1">
><option>item 1</option>
><option>item 2</option>
><option>item 3</option>
></select>
>
>this is how it needs to be:
><select name="menu1">
><option value ="item 1">item 1</option>
><option value ="item 2">item 2</option>
><option value ="item 3">item 3</option>
></select>

Interesting. But wrong.



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