[ZPT] FW: [Zope] TAL::Selecting the current value in a select box

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Chris W wrote:

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

Because <option selected> is not valid XML. An attribute always needs a 
value. Thus, it renders <option selected="selected">. Try this with the 
W3C XHTML validator and you will see that this is the only way to make 
the XHML well-formed.

Phil