maryfran

in my <select> scrolling list?

Here is the offending code (abbreviated)
<select name="sr_location_id" class="" size=10 >
<option value='94' >Italy</option>
<option value='97' selected>Japan</option>
<option value='252' >Jersey</option>
<option value='294' >Jiangsu</option>
<option value='295' >Jiangxi</option>

I have data series which have a location specified. I wish to edit the
data series. I select the location from the database (Note: database
stuff is not a problem) and display a scrolling list with the location
specified by that data series highlighted. Problem is, even though the
option is marked selected, the Japan entry in the scrolling list does
not highlight.

The offending page may be viewed at

http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~maryf...ta_series_id=2


Sometimes when it loads, Japan is highlighted correctly. Sometimes
nothing is highlighted. Sometimes some random option in the list is
highlighted. Similar behavior is observed in the data series types
scrolling list next to the locations list on the page.

I have been using Firefox 2.0.0.3. I just tried it out on IE7 and it
seems to work OK. Maybe it is a browser problem, but the XDynamic HTML
Definitive Reference seems to say that the selected attribute on option
works OK with mozilla.