Make the property of your <html:select> a collection with the appropriate getter and setter. All this is covered in the struts-exercise-taglib app that comes with the Struts distribution.
Sri P.S. selectedItem just the name of is a form bean property. -----Original Message----- From: Rodger Cooley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:29 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Having a preselected option in dropdown. Multiple default selections? Is it possible for multiple default selections? BTW, I didn't see the selectedItem in the struts 1.1 html tld... where'd you find it? -----Original Message----- From: Sri Sankaran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:24 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Having a preselected option in dropdown. Of course your 'optionValues' collection must have an item called 'Item 2'. BTW: The form bean 'selectedItem' value should read 'Item 2'. Sri -----Original Message----- From: Sri Sankaran Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:19 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Having a preselected option in dropdown. -- JSP Code -- <html:select property="selectedItem" size="10"> <html:options name="optionValues" labelName="optionValues"/> </html:select> -- Form Bean -- String selectedItem = "Single 2"; This will result in a drop-down with 'Item 2' selected. Hope that helps Sri -----Original Message----- From: Harjeet Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Having a preselected option in dropdown. How can I define a pre-selcetd option for the dropdown. I know there should be a way for it, but try as I migth I am not able to find how. Could someone provide me a sample peice of code for same. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

