Oliver Marx wrote:

I have used your example - could you clarify some asspects?

<select> <tal:r repeat="item here/SelectBoxData"> <option tal:attributes="value item/value; selected python:item.value==current_value;" tal:content="item/text">Dummy Content</option> </tal:r> </select>

tal:r - I'm not sure I understand this tag, and I couldn't find any documentation in the ZopeBook. What am I missing?

anything in the tal or metal namespaces isn't output to the browser. The r bit is just a dummy tag.

selected python:item.value==current_value;" - Why does this tag produce selected="selected" and not just selected?

Boolean magic of ZPT ;-) cheers, Chris