You can use an <html:option> tag as well:
<html:select property="productId">
<html:option value="0">select</html:option>
<html:optionsCollection name="...." label="...." value="productId"/>
</html:select>
Niall
----- Original Message -----
From: "andy wix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:19 PM
Subject: <html:options> best practice
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if there is a neat way to overcome a typical problem when
> offering a drop-down menu to a user. It is common to have a default
option
> called say 'select'. The drop down objects in my case are an arraylist
> which are the result of a trip to the db.
>
> So far, my contrived solution is to have a dummy object which I add at
> position zero in the arraylist which has a name field of 'select', but
this
> is nasty as there are times I want to use the arraylist (stored in the
> sesion) without this item and it means shipping a db with a 'must-have'
> record.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
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