No, if you want that option selected pass it a attribute for selected.
Anything with an underscore will get passed to the html as an attribute. So
you could also go _style="..."
OPTION('candy', _selected="selected", _value=1) should produce what you are
looking for.
However, when using SQLFORM the default selection can be set as well when
you specify field.default =...
-Thadeus
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Avik Basu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am a Web2Py newbie trying to use the OPTION helper to create a
> dropdown menu that will select the appropriate option.
>
> I expect that
>
> OPTION('candy', _value=1, value=1)
>
> should produce
>
> <option selected="selected" value="1">candy</option>
>
> but it only produces
>
> <option value="1">candy</option>
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Thanks.
>
> Avik
>
> >
>
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