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Author Odd select box behaviour - SOLVED
aneely@softouch.on.ca

2007-05-02, 9:55 pm

I had a wild thought and changed the select box definition.

First I dropped the 'selected' attribute. That solved the problem.

Then I added it back, but as such: selected="selected". That worked too.

My DOCTYPE is HTML 4.01 Transitional, and I remembered reading about all
attributes must now have a value, even the ones that didn't normally
require one.

I hope this helps some other programmer save some time.
aneely@softouch.on.ca

2007-05-03, 6:55 pm

aneely@softouch.on.ca wrote:
> I had a wild thought and changed the select box definition.
>
> First I dropped the 'selected' attribute. That solved the problem.
>
> Then I added it back, but as such: selected="selected". That worked too.
>
> My DOCTYPE is HTML 4.01 Transitional, and I remembered reading about all
> attributes must now have a value, even the ones that didn't normally
> require one.
>
> I hope this helps some other programmer save some time.


Don't know what I was thinking when I posted this. It couldn't have worked.

See my response under 'Odd select box behaviour'.

The *correct* answer is:

'if ($Country ne 'Canada' && $Country ne 'United States')'

not

'if ($Country ne 'Canada' || $Country ne 'United States')'

as pointed out by Shawn Hinchy.

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