Thanks for the responses.
Still not quite there though...
Victor wrote:
> <html:select name="MyBean" property="myValue" value="${Mybean.myValue}">
> ...
> </html:select>
This has the effect of always defaulting to the empty string option, regardless of the
value of 'myValue'.
Paul wrote:
> Try not explicitly setting the value attribute.
This works insofar as the drop-down displays correctly if the value is true or false,
but if the value is null, then the drop-down defaults to 'no' (false) instead of ''.
Matt
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From: Victor R. Cardona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 April 2004 15:17
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: html:select - can't display default option
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Matthew Hegarty wrote:
| Hi all
|
| I am using <html:select>, and trying to get the drop-down to default
to a Boolean value in a bean, ie true, false, or blank if the bean is null.
| My bean (MyBean) contains the method getMyValue() which returns a
Boolean object.
|
| In the code snippet below, the c:out statement confirms that the value
of the property is 'true'. I expect that the 'true' option will be
pre-selected (which it is if you add "value='true'" to html:select), but
doing this dynamically with the c:out tag doesn't work - the blank value
is always the
| one pre-selected.
|
| Can someone suggest anything I am doing wrong, or suggest a better
approach (i'm relatively new to Struts).
|
| <c:out value='${MyBean.myValue}' /><br>
| <html:select name="MyBean" property="myValue"
value="<c:out value='${MyBean.myValue}' />">
| <html:option value=""
key="jsp.form.booleandropdown.default" bundle="JSP_LABELS" />
| <html:option value="true"
key="jsp.form.booleandropdown.true" bundle="JSP_LABELS" />
| <html:option value="false"
key="jsp.form.booleandropdown.false" bundle="JSP_LABELS" />
| </html:select>
This is just a guess, but you could try writing it like this:
<html:select name="MyBean" property="myValue" value="${Mybean.myValue}">
...
</html:select>
I think the problem is the c:out tag in the value attribute. In any
case, you don't need it. You can use EL expressions anywhere if you are
using a container that supports the JSP2.0 specs.
HTH,
Victor
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