Do you mean that he should use a plain <option value="">...</option> or use <html:option>...</html:option> instead?
There are reasons to use a null value in something like: <html:option value="">...</html:option> When the form is submitted, you're guaranteed a null string will be passed in the actionForm if nothing is selected. I wouldn't want to check for a "..." to know that nothing was picked from the list. Leaving the option label empty is not intuitive enough for a user to know to pick something so most likely a "..." or "...select one" label will make more sense. -c ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:06 PM Subject: RE: Add blank option to select > There's no point in using the taglib to output a null valued <option> tag. > > David > > > > >From: "James Childers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: Add blank option to select > >Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:04:46 -0600 > > > > > >I just had to do this about 30 minutes ago. All I did was: > > > ><html:option value=""><html:message key="key.value" /></html:option> > > > >Quick & dirty, and it doesn't add anything to your List. But I didn't feel > >that adding empty entries to my List was something I really wanted to do. > > > >-= J > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Bredesen, Chris - NA US HQ Delray > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:51 PM > > > To: Struts Users Mailing List (E-mail) > > > Subject: Add blank option to select > > > > > > What I need is to add a blank option to the select that is > > > not present in my > > > data. Since my List implementation is just an adaptor, and > > > not a new data > > > structure, I cannot just add another member. I tried doing a > > > Union in my > > > SQL query to tack on a blank record but the crap DB API won't have it. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
