.setAttribute works; it bypasses the propertySetter overrides: See http://jsfiddle.net/ENqsh/
Again, not elegant :-) Eric On Monday, April 23, 2012 9:53:08 AM UTC-4, hazlema wrote: > > You can't, obj.setProperty('selected', 'true'); will just set the value > to true. > Best you can do is to set _selected to true then with regex you can change > _selected to selected, > > I wrote this awhile back: > http://jsfiddle.net/hazlema/BwczU/ > > Ran into the same issue. Thats how I delt with it. > > On 4/23/2012 12:16 AM, Steve Onnis wrote: > > How can i get mootools to actually write the “selected” property into > the HTML when creating new <option> elements? > > > > It seems to select the option fine but it doesn’t actually write the > property to the html > > > > Steve > > >