[support] How to add "selected" attribute to select list <option>tag

[Sarah.Vardy at student.griffith.edu.au]

Hi Steve,

Are you getting the entries out of a database or are you setting them straight off with static values?

You haven't got a closing tag on your option tag in your html i.e. "</option>" so this could be the problem for starters.

If you send the section of code you are talking about it's probably easier to work out.

Sarah


----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Edwards <killshot91 at comcast.net>
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:04 pm
Subject: Re: [support] How to add "selected" attribute to select list <option>tag
To: support at drupal.org

> Hmmm, getting closer, but I can't seem to get it to work.  
> No matter what I try, I can't get it to select anything.
> 
> Here is what my select list looks like (in HTML)
> 
> <option value="1">Name 1
> <option value="2">Name 2
> <option value="3">Name 3
> <option value="4">Name 4
> <option value="5">Name 5
> 
> The value is the user's uid. number That being the case, what 
> would i use for #default_value?  I've tried things like
> 
> '#default_value' => array(1 => 'Name 1')
> '#default_value' => 1
> '#default_value' => 'Name 1'
> 
> but I can't get any of them to work.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> Greg Holsclaw wrote:
> > Make the #default_value an array of the keys of the options 
> you want
> > selected.
> > 
> > $form['item'] = array(
> > '#type' => 'select',
> > ...
> > '#options' => array of all options,
> > '#default_value' => array of keys from above options.
> > ...
> > );
> > 
> > Check
> > 
> http://api.drupal.org/api/file/developer/topics/forms_api_reference.html> /5#default_value for more info.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-
> bounces at drupal.org] On
> > Behalf Of Steve Edwards
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:25 PM
> > To: support at drupal.org
> > Subject: [support] How to add "selected" attribute to select list
> > <option>tag
> > 
> > Well, I'm back again, and this time I have a question about 
> attributes> for select options in a form.  I have a form 
> that has a 
> > select element (multi-select) that lists users.  The form 
> is for some
> > admin settings for a module.  When the form is displayed, 
> I 
> > need to be able to highlight specific options in the list 
> based on data
> > returned from a query.  I've been looking all day, and 
> > haven't been able to figure it out.  There is the 
> #attribute key, but it
> > is for the field as whole (at least as far as I can 
> > determine), and doesn't work for each individual <option> tag.
> > 
> > If anybody could point me in the right direction, I would 
> appreciate it.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Steve
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