[HTML] Drop Down List - Selected?

[Trigs]

Err how do I specify a select drop down field?

Ex:
<select size="1">
<option value="lol">lol</option>
<option value="ok">ok</option>
</select>

I tried some things but it didn't work.

[MrCraig]

dont put size="1" in :P

[Trigs]

My IDE automatically added that.

[Iszak]

selected="selected"


e.g.


<select>
<option>One</option>
<option>Two</option>
<option selected="selected">Three</option>
</select>

[Dentafrice]

selected="selected"


e.g.


<select>
<option>One</option>
<option>Two</option>
<option selected="selected">Three</option>
</select>

You don't need to put selected="selected", as selected is a bool value.

just:



<select name="country">
<option value="UK">United Kingdom</option>
<option value="CA">Canada</option>
<option selected value="US">United States</option>
</select>

[Trigs]

Uh well can I do <select selected value="US"> instead? It's for an edit profile thing so I need to pull the country letters from the db.

[Dentafrice]

No.. you do <option selected value="US">United States</option>

options go in selects.

[Trigs]

So <option selected value="CA">United States</option> obviously wouldnt work right? So that basically means that theres no easy way to pull the country code from a database a show that option as selected right?

[Dentafrice]

So <option selected value="CA">United States</option> obviously wouldnt work right? So that basically means that theres no easy way to pull the country code from a database a show that option as selected right?
Yeah there is, and yeah that would work.. why would you think it wouldn't work?

[Trigs]

I don't know? lmao.

[Iszak]

You don't need to put selected="selected", as selected is a bool value.
You use XHTML, you should know that just having
selected is invalid for all XHTML doctypes, and only valid in HTML 4.01, but
selected="selected" is valid in both - so hence my statement is correct.

[Source]

I have to agree with iszak, I've found selected="selected" to have lesser issues when designing for multiple browsers and doc types.