[html-formfu] option attributes

Dermot paikkos at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 4 15:15:29 GMT 2009


2009/2/4 Carl Franks <fireartist at gmail.com>:
> 2009/2/4 Dermot <paikkos at googlemail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to set the 'selected' attribute on a option element?
>> I have tried selected => 1 and selected => 'selected' but nether give
>> me the effect.
>
> Like any other field, you just need to call:
>    $field->default( $value )
>
> where $value == the selected option's value, not it's label.
>
> To select multiple options, you need to set $field->multiple(1)
>
>    type: Select
>    name: foo
>    multiple: 1

understood.


> and give default() an arrayref of values.
>    $field->default([ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]);

Thanx that's worked.

Am I mistaken or is the rendered XHTML the same?

<option value="1" selected="selected"..

Thanx again,
Dp.



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