selected="selected" ?

[Michael Marrotte]

I'm trying to generate:

<select name="state">
              <option value=""></option>
              <option value="AL">AL</option>
              <option value="AK">AK</option>
              <option value="AS">AS</option>
              <option value="AZ">AZ</option>
...
So, I use the following syntax:

          <html:select property="state" name="payer" >
              <html:option value=""></html:option>
              <html:option value="AL">AL</html:option>
              <html:option value="AK">AK</html:option>
              <html:option value="AS">AS</html:option>
              <html:option value="AZ">AZ</html:option>
...

But, I don't get the desired result, instead I get (e.g. when
payer.getState()=="AK):

         <select name="state"><option value=""></option>
              <option value="AL">AL</option>
              <option value="AK"selected="selected">AK</option>
              <option value="AS">AS</option>
              <option value="AZ">AZ</option>

Does anyone know why the HTML is generated this way?  Is there a way to get
my desired results, from above?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

--Michael Marrotte