I figured out what the problem was. Struts auto sets the default value in an html:select to whatever the property is in the form bean. Someone said this earlier (thank you). My problem was, I was getting this value from the database. Our database is oracle and the fields in question were of type char[x]. These are fixed length fields that are padded with spaces on a result set! So a state of "GA" is not equal to "GA "!! Thanks for everyone's help on this. This was not a struts issue (usually isn't). thanks, Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eddie Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:43 AM Subject: Re: AAAARGH! SOMEONE! How do I set the default selection when I'm using html:options? > Yeah, actually this might be your best approach. Mine would depend on > Struts. This approach would be totally independent of Struts. If > you're (wasn't it spec 2.3 that brought us these listeners?) on an older > spec, using the plugin may well be the way to go though. > > Robert Taylor wrote: > > >javax.servlet.ServletContextListener @since Servlet2.2 spec acts a > >bootstrap. > >Prior to Servlet2.2 spec, try a bootstrap servlet. > > > >A quick scan of the mailing list archives and ..... > >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg38242.html > > > >should help. > > > >robert > > > > -- > Eddie Bush > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
