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Posted to users@cocoon.apache.org by Nägeli Margrit <ma...@ecofin.ch> on 2000/07/13 14:08:52 UTC
Pre-selected option in html form
I realise that my question is not directly cocoon-related, but seeing there
are so many xsl experts on this list, I just go ahead and ask it anyway.
I write a <form> which has a <select> element which contains various
<option> elements. One of these options (depending on selections in other
screens or db output) has to be pre-selected. In html, this is done by
specifying the valueless attribute "selected".
Valueless attributes are not allowed in xml, but the useragents cannot tell
the difference between selected="yes" and selected="no" yet.
Has anyone encountered and solved this problem?
Thank you
maggie
Re: Pre-selected option in html form
Posted by Jeremy Quinn <je...@media.demon.co.uk>.
At 14:08 +0200 13/07/00, Nägeli Margrit wrote:
>I write a <form> which has a <select> element which contains various
><option> elements. One of these options (depending on selections in other
>screens or db output) has to be pre-selected. In html, this is done by
>specifying the valueless attribute "selected".
>
>Valueless attributes are not allowed in xml, but the useragents cannot tell
>the difference between selected="yes" and selected="no" yet.
I use this:
<option value="blah" selected="selected">I'd like some Blah</option>
<option value="noblah">No Blah thanks</option>
I believe this gets transformed to HTML by the HTMLFormatter, along with
other broken stuff like <br/> <hr/> <img/> etc.
There is an example of this sort of thing in sample that comes with FP TagLib.
http://www.media.demon.co.uk/fp/fp.sit.bin (MacOS)
http://www.media.demon.co.uk/fp/fp.zip (WIN)
http://www.media.demon.co.uk/fp/fp.tar.Z (UNIX)
Hope this helps
Jeremy
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Re: Pre-selected option in html form
Posted by Mac Schwarz <mc...@phil.uni-erlangen.de>.
Nägeli Margrit wrote:
>
[...]
>
> Valueless attributes are not allowed in xml, but the useragents cannot tell
> the difference between selected="yes" and selected="no" yet.
>
> Has anyone encountered and solved this problem?
>
> Thank you
>
> maggie
Have you tried selected="selected" for the pre-selected option?
Mac
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Re: Pre-selected option in html form
Posted by Jari Aarniala <ja...@ioboxgroup.com>.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nägeli Margrit <ma...@ecofin.ch>
To: <co...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:08 PM
Subject: Pre-selected option in html form
: Valueless attributes are not allowed in xml, but the useragents cannot
tell
: the difference between selected="yes" and selected="no" yet.
I've just used something like selected="1", any value inside the quotes will
set it selected (apart from 'false' or '0' (zero)) I guess.
Jari
Re: Pre-selected option in html form
Posted by sudhi <su...@insage.com>.
Hi,
I even I had the same problem with older version of cocoon.
I am using selected="yes". And it works.
I am using Cocoon 1.7.4
~S
Nägeli Margrit wrote:
>
> I realise that my question is not directly cocoon-related, but seeing there
> are so many xsl experts on this list, I just go ahead and ask it anyway.
>
> I write a <form> which has a <select> element which contains various
> <option> elements. One of these options (depending on selections in other
> screens or db output) has to be pre-selected. In html, this is done by
> specifying the valueless attribute "selected".
>
> Valueless attributes are not allowed in xml, but the useragents cannot tell
> the difference between selected="yes" and selected="no" yet.
>
> Has anyone encountered and solved this problem?
>
> Thank you
>
> maggie
>
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Re: Pre-selected option in html form
Posted by Donald Ball <ba...@webslingerZ.com>.
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] N�geli Margrit wrote:
> I realise that my question is not directly cocoon-related, but seeing there
> are so many xsl experts on this list, I just go ahead and ask it anyway.
>
> I write a <form> which has a <select> element which contains various
> <option> elements. One of these options (depending on selections in other
> screens or db output) has to be pre-selected. In html, this is done by
> specifying the valueless attribute "selected".
>
> Valueless attributes are not allowed in xml, but the useragents cannot tell
> the difference between selected="yes" and selected="no" yet.
>
> Has anyone encountered and solved this problem?
sure. i use the empty string for the attribute value and things work
great - the html serializer drops the dummy attribute value when
appropriate. you can also do this:
<option>
<xsl:attribute name="selected"/>
</option>
- donald