nope... when a select has "preselections" the markup is <select> ....<option selected>....</option> </select>
If you want to do it "the hard way" (i.e. without SQLFORM.factory), you need set the "preselection" with OPTION(v, _value=v, _selected='') On Friday, November 15, 2013 12:33:13 PM UTC+1, Shreyas Pandya wrote: > > please see the question on stack overflow > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19999852/how-to-preselect-options-in-select-helper-in-web2py > > reproduced here for convenience > > when creating multiple select input with SELECT, OPTION helpers, I want to > preselect some options, I tried following > > OPTION('myOption', _value=val, value=[v1, v2]) > > extrapolating from the docs, but it does not work > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

