[ZPT] option selected?

[Casey Duncan]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:15:58 -0000
"cccurvey" <scurvey at nwaf.com> 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>

In ZPT several attributes (selected, disables, nowrap, etc) are
considered "boolean" and are treated specially by tal:attributes. They
are omitted from the output if the value is "False" and inserted only if
the value is "True".

I suspect SimpleTAL does not do this.

-Casey