Which you can also use for validation, for example the value of "Select a State" could be "" or "XX" or something. Then you can check to see if they selected a state without having to worry about going through all 50 states checking to see if there was a match.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 3:08 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Easy question - Java Beans > > > Denise, > > > How would your original select look for the states? > > Not sure what you are asking, but I'll take a stab, and you > can come back > and correct me. > > The "NY" is all you need to keep in the bean. I assume that > somewhere you > have a loop that emits the <option> tags. When the value you > are about to > emit for the value attribute is equal to getState(), then you add the > "selected" attribute to that tag. For the initial request, > when there is no > such value, nothing would be selected, so the first entry at > the top could > be something like "Select a State". > > --- Noel > > > -- > 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]>
