95083 - SELECTED attribute of OPTION tag not recognized.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[brian rutledge]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080110

In a SELECT form element, the SELECTED attribute of the OPTION tag is used to
pre-select an option when the form loads.  This is not happening in the provided
URL -- the first option is selected instead of the third.  IE 5.0 properly
renders the page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~rutledge/select.html
2. Look at the SELECT box

Alternatively, write a page that uses a form with a SELECT control.  Use the
SELECTED attribute on one of the OPTION elements.


Actual Results:  Option One is selected.

Expected Results:  Option Three should be selected.

<select>
<option value="one">Option One
<option value="two">Option Two
<option value="three" selected>Option Three
</select>

Comment 1

[brian rutledge]

My fault.  Mozilla apparently remembers the last selected OPTION in a SELECT
control.  When I reloaded a page after adding the SELECTED attribute, the
remembering functionality apparently overrides the SELECTED functionality. 
Closing and restarting the browser showed the correct option being selected. 
Sorry about that.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

try shift-reload instead of plain reload.  That resets form controls....