>> I think the strict (and proper way) would be selected="true" > Thanks for all your feedbacks. Now it is working fine. As Bobby wrote it is a "remembering the last selection" tyope of issue I think. I actually used the ddl just for testing and to display the item selected, not to submit it to a form so I did not encapsulated the ddl in a form tag, this might have caused the problem. IE is more forgiven about this.
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