127943 - SELECTED option in OPTION tag ignored

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 46845

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Avleen Vig]

In forms that use <OPTION SELECTED VALUE="Foo">, the 'SELECTED' option is
ignored and the top item in the list of <OPTION>'s is selected by default.
This can (and does in my case) break sites that depend on the chosen SELECTED
option being selected by default.

The option can be selected manually, but that breaks the use of SELECTED.

Comment 1

[Avleen Vig]

This works:
<option selected value="Unassigned">Unassigned</option>

This does not:
<option value="Unassigned" selected>Unassigned</option>

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

worksforme, linux build 2002-02-24-06.  See attached testcase -- both comboboxes
have the right thing selected.

Avleen, what build are you using?  Is there an HTML page that demonstrates the
problem?

Comment 4

[Avleen Vig]

I don't know how to explain this :-/

Even the test cases I had set up appear to work now :-/

But I certainly wasn't just seeing things!

Comment 5

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

> I don't know how to explain this :-/

'Twas those damn daemons I tell you!

<ahem>

;-)

Comment 6

[Avleen Vig]

I found a way to replecate the problem - this prompted me to change the severity
to 'minor'.

Open a page with a form, where 'selected' is not used.
Now, edit the source so that 'selected' IS used, and click reload.
The menu isn't updated to used the new 'selected' :-)

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That's because form values persist across reload (bug 46845).  Try shift-reload.

Comment 8

[Avleen Vig]

hmmmm I might be wrong.. if I am please correct me!
Isn't the point of 'reload', to check if the page has been updated, and if so
display the new page - and not keep old values around?

If so, I don't see why there is a need for a Shift-Reload.

I understand that it's used to tell systems to ignore the cache and fetch from
the server, but if 'reload' is fetching from the server, why isn't it updating
the screen? :-)

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Because of bug 46845

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46845 ***