[ZPT] option selected?

[robert]

I think your problem is that you just have to have the word "selected" to mark 
an option as selected.
<select name="categoryId">
    <option value="1" >Foo</option>
    <option value="2" "selected">Bar</option>
    <option value="3">Snafu</option>
</select>

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On Monday 05 January 2004 20:15, cccurvey wrote:
> Ack!  I'm both confused and off-topic!  I'm trying to make sure that
> the select box that's in the form reflects the state of the record
> that was retrieved from the database (and I'm using the SimpleTAL
> package from owlfish.com to do this outside of Zope).
>
>     Category:
>     <select name="categoryId">
>         <option tal:repeat="category categoryList"
> 	        tal:attributes="selected
>                     python:category['categoryId']==case.categoryId;
>                     value category/categoryId"
> 		tal:content="category/categoryName">
>         </option>
>     </select>
>
> This all works well and gives me something like
>
> <select name="categoryId">
>     <option value="1" selected="false">Foo</option>
>     <option value="2" selected="true">Bar</option>
>     <option value="3" selected="false">Snafu</option>
> </select>
>
> But the problem is that the browsers seem to be always selecting the
> last item in the list.  It appears that they pick the last option with
> a "selected" attribute, regardless of what the value is.
>
> How do I work around this to only put the "selected" tag on the option
> which is actually selected?
>
> If I'm too far off-topic, let me know and I'll be quiet.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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