Eifion wrote: > I was using $F today to read the value of a SELECT element and found > that if the value of one of the options is an empty string, the option's > text is returned instead. For example in the code below, if One, Two > Three or Four was the selected option then I'd get 1,2,3 or 4 from $F, > but if the first option's selected then I get "--SELECT--" back. > > Is this how $F is supposed to work? > > Eifion > > <select name="mr_select" id="mr_select"> > <option value="">--SELECT--</option> > <option value="1">One</option> > <option value="2">Two</option> > <option value="3">Three</option> > <option value="4">Four</option> > </select>
I complained about this a few days ago. That's just how it works and it's a bug IMHO. The only way I know how to deal with it is to use a "0" instead of "" and then change the server side code to deal with that. -- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
