Posted by Andy Hassall on 01/27/06 01:48

On 26 Jan 2006 11:35:15 -0800, "Blockhead" <johnmigliorisi@gmail.com> wrote:

>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>

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-value-OPTION

"value = cdata [CS]
This attribute specifies the initial value of the control. If this
attribute is not set, the initial value is set to the contents of the OPTION
element."

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