Hi Seona,

   is your query returning any results?  An empty query can cause this
   kind of behaviour, as anything within the cfloop qill not be
   executed...

Toby

Thursday, February 13, 2003, 4:15:56 PM, you wrote:

SB> I believe that it is. All of my other selects have this option, and they all
SB> work fine. In fact, if I take all the CF stuff from around the <option> tag,
SB> the select works fine. So I'm guessing that what ever the problem is, it's
SB> with the CF bits.

SB> Thanks for the suggestion though. :)

>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Trying to figure out the syntax of a <cfif>
>> statement
>>
>>
>> Is the name="" a valid HTML attribute in a <option> tag?
>> I believe not..
>>
>> Try it without..
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Seona Bellamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "CFAussie Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:15 PM
>> Subject: [cfaussie] Trying to figure out the syntax of a <cfif> statement
>>
>>
>> > Hi all!
>> >
>> > I have a table which lists the feats a character has taken.
>> Some of these
>> > feats have a focus associated with them. The table has a simple
>> structure:
>> >
>> > ID
>> > CharacterName
>> > FeatName
>> > FeatFocus
>> >
>> > FeatFocus my be empty, or take a value if the feat has a focus.
>> >
>> > In the page where users select a feat to add to their list, I
>> want to make
>> > sure that they don't add something they already have. I've managed the
>> > filtering for the feats where the focus comes from another table (i.e.,
>> the
>> > focus is on a skill, so the values they can select from are
>> drawn from the
>> > Skills table). Now I have a problem with one where I give a
>> defined set of
>> > values created by me.
>> >
>> > I have a query which selects all instances of the relevant feat and gets
>> the
>> > FeatFocus value.
>> >
>> > <cfquery name="q_SpellFocus" datasource="#request.dsn#">
>> > SELECT FeatFocus
>> > FROM FeatsByCharacter
>> > WHERE (CharacterName = '#request.session.CharacterName#') AND
>> (FeatName =
>> > 'Spell Focus')
>> > </cfquery>
>> >
>> > Then I'm trying to check and see if each option appears in the query
>> > results. I tried to do a "contains" in the <cfif> statement,
>> but it didn't
>> > seem to like that. So now I'm playing with loops, but this seems to wipe
>> all
>> > the results. This is what I have so far:
>> >
>> > <select name="SpF_Focus">
>> > <cfloop query="q_SpellFocus">
>> > <cfif q_SpellFocus.FeatFocus IS NOT "Abjuration">
>> > <option name="Abjuration" value="Abjuration">Abjuration</option>
>> > </cfif>
>> > <option name="Conjuration" value="Conjuration">Conjuration</option>
>> > <option name="Divination" value="Divination">Divination</option>
>> > (more options in here but I haven't played with them yet)
>> > </cfloop>
>> > </select>
>> >
>> > What this returns, is an empty select box. :(
>> >
>> > Can someone suggest a way to make this work? Should I be looking at the
>> > query or the loop, or the if statement? I'm really not sure.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > Seona.
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