Actually Bud it doesn't work with no value attribute either (I tried it every way possible). Anyways, thanks for the response....I rolled a custom solution to get around CFSELECT and it's dark dark evilness ;-)
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:16 PM Subject: Re: CFSELECT (I hate CFFORM) > On 3/26/03, Bryan Stevenson penned: > >I'm using IE and I know IE would consider the text "Select one" as the > >selection when the option value is left blank as I'm doing. I tried > >removing the "Select one" text and it still didn't catch the lack of > >selection!! > > It shouldn't. If it does it's broke. It should only recognize Select > one if there was no value attribute at all. > > <option>Select one > > And cfselect isn't used that way. You pass a query to it. I believe > the minimum is below: > > <cfselect > name="field name" > query="query name" > value="field to be passed as value" > display="field to display"> > </cfselect> > > You can also add required and message as with cfinput. > > That said, javascript validation has never worked on cfselect for me. > I hate cfselect also. But I do use cfform quite a bit. > -- > > Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.twcreations.com/ > http://www.cf-ezcart.com/ > 954.721.3452 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
