Setting a default option for a comb box

[Doogie]

I posted this question a few days ago but I think that post is drying
up and I still do not have an answer. I need to set a default option
for a combo box that is not the first item in that combo box. Below
is an example. I can put the code below into a simple HTML file and
it works fine. It does NOT work in a ASP 3.0 app. I have tried two
seperate ASP apps as an example and NEITHER work.

I have tried variations of the "selected ="true"" part. But nothing
is working. I am surprised it is so difficult to set a default for a
combo box in ASP! Is there some other way to do this? If anyone has
any ideas, I would really appreciate them, this was supposed to be a
simple change and it is taking a very long time to accomplish!

<select name="cboCompany" style="text-align:right; font-size:8pt">
<option value="08">08</option>
<option value="09" selected="true">09</option>
<option value="33">33</option>
<option value="18">18</option>
<option value="17">17</option>
</select>

 

[Evertjan.]

Doogie wrote on 25 feb 2007 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

I posted this question a few days ago but I think that post is drying
up and I still do not have an answer. I need to set a default option
for a combo box that is not the first item in that combo box. Below
is an example. I can put the code below into a simple HTML file and
it works fine. It does NOT work in a ASP 3.0 app. I have tried two
seperate ASP apps as an example and NEITHER work.

I have tried variations of the "selected ="true"" part. But nothing
is working. I am surprised it is so difficult to set a default for a
combo box in ASP! Is there some other way to do this? If anyone has
any ideas, I would really appreciate them, this was supposed to be a
simple change and it is taking a very long time to accomplish!

<select name="cboCompany" style="text-align:right; font-size:8pt">
<option value="08">08</option>
<option value="09" selected="true">09</option>
<option value="33">33</option>
<option value="18">18</option>
<option value="17">17</option>
</select>

This has nothing to do with ASP, as ASP is a serverside platform.
Furtheremore it seems not a scripting Q.
You where lucky someone in this NG answered you in the first place.
Please follow up on a clientside html NG.

 

[Bob Lehmann]

Since it apears to you to be an ASP problem, maybe you should post some
related ASP code, or at least some of the surrounding HTML

Even though selected="true" is invalid, it works for me in an ASP page.

I think you misunderstood Mark's recommendation to View Source. He meant, in
your browser, with the page loaded, Edit | View Source.

Bob Lehmann

 

[Mike Brind]

I posted this question a few days ago but I think that post is drying
up

How can it be "drying up"? There are new posts on that thread today!