Re: $POST Q

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On Mon, December 18, 2006 7:09 am, Nisse Engström wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:22:13 -0600 (CST), "Richard Lynch" wrote:
>
>>     $selected = $l == $limit ? 'selected="selected"' : '';
>>     echo "<option value=\"$l\" $selected>$l</option>\n";
>
> [snip]
>
>> The value="x" *is* optional, but you'll never convince the people
>> who
>> tell you it isn't, unless you force them to read the RFCs and W3C
>> recommendations [*], so it's easier to include it than to argue with
>> them. :-)
>
>    It is indeed optional, and the HTML spec.[1] even says
> that if the attribute is not set, the initial value is
> set to the contents of the element. That's all good and
> well.
>
>    What's not all good and well are browser implementations.
> If you try to retrieve the value from JavaScript (by way
> of option.value or select.value) in IE 5.5 [2] and several
> versions of Opera [3], you may find the value is simply
> not there *unless* you spell it out in HTML.

Ah.

Yeah, now that I actually occasionally use JavaScript, I should
actually pay attention to the "gotchas" of JS.
:-)

Thanks!

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