Julian explained the scenario quite well, although my exact case deals with room reservations with a nasty select box. The user can be undecided about rooms altogether or just about exactly which conference room (which is a type of room in this case). I worked around it by giving the top "Undecided" the value of "Undecided Room" and using that for val() instead.
Glad to see it was sorted out! I'm sorry I couldn't have been of more help earlier. I'm not a mailing list kinda person. On Jul 23, 5:38 pm, John Resig <jere...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm kind of struggling to remember - I think it may be because when an > option has no value the .text value is sent to the server instead. Perhaps > the logic could be switched from an || to an elem.value ? ... do .value ... > : ... do .text ... > > I went ahead and did > it:http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4962http://dev.jquery.com/changeset/6485 > > And it passes in all browsers - so yay! > > --John > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Julian Aubourg > <aubourg.jul...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Well, you could very well imagine a site with a guy using 666 or 69 or any > > other l337 name as his username. If you happen to have a select with a list > > of users (friends list for instance), with option values being the user id, > > you can end up with Mr. 69 being confused with user which id is 69. > > A workaround would be to add a character that is not authorized in a > > username concatenated before the ids for the select value but that's quite > > messy imo. > > > On a side note, I'm quite curious to know what the reasonning behind > > testing the text node against a test *value* was. > > > Oh, and John, you're on fire today, my gmail box is burning because of you > > ! ;) > > > 2009/7/23 John Resig <jere...@gmail.com> > > >> Grouping without optgroup. > >>> In a (big) select you could have many generic options like "select an > >>> option", or just "-----", each with a specific value. By selecting one, > >>> the > >>> user is given a starting position, closer to the options she might need. > > >> Sure, that's reasonable - but I can't imagine anyone doing: > > >> <option value ="-----">BLAH</option> > >> <option value="BLAH">------</option> > > >> --John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
