How do I preselect in a drop down list box?

Question

I am trying to preselect like this:

<option selected="yes" value="test1" >test1</option

But I get a message in VS2010 saying "Validation HTML5: The value permitted for this attribute do not include 'yes'.

Am I doing something wrong. I thought the way to preselect was as above.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 18 '11 at 05:14

4

it should be selected="selected"

<option selected="selected" value="test1" >test1</option>

answered Apr 18 '11 at 05:14

Dharmesh

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 18 '11 at 05:14

3

Selected attribute only contain selected value, like this:

<option selected="selected" value="test1">test1</option>

answered Apr 18 '11 at 05:14

DStereo

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 18 '11 at 05:14

2

<option selected="selected">test1</option>

Would be the correct way to do it, AFAIK.

answered Apr 18 '11 at 05:14

d-_-b

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 18 '11 at 05:14

0

try selected="selected" or you can just leave the selected without any value like <option selected>test1</option>

answered Apr 18 '11 at 05:14

Sufendy

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