HTTP wont send the "Description" portion (the portion within the <option> tags), only the value.
If that's what your point is. -----Original Message----- From: Roji Thomas [mailto:rojithomas@;hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:47 PM To: ActiveServerPages Subject: Re: Select text at Server Side I want both value and text What Robert said is a workaround. I suggested that too. But the point is that, theoretically it is not possible to get the text at server side, Right! Thanks Roji ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lonnie.Kraemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ActiveServerPages" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Select text at Server Side > > Looking a bit stubborn today morning ;) > > My colleague ask me Is there a way to > > get the 'text' of a select item in the server side. > > I said No, but is that is there any way? > > Sure! IIRC, if no value is assigned, the text will be passed: <select> > <option>This</option> > </select> > > or pass the text as the value: > <select> > <option value="This">This</option> > </select> > > or pass the text as part of the value: > <select> > <option value="selected,This">This</option> > </select> > > -- > Lonnie Kraemer > ----------------------------------------- > > --- > You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
