Struts Select Tag

[paul pavlentey]

I am new to Struts
I have the following code:

<html:select property="fa" styleClass="dropdown">
<html:options collection="faidsClients" property="value" 
     labelProperty="description"/>
</html:select>

Code is executing correctly,but I dont get how selected option is getting selected based on the code above. I have a question about SELECTED value in HTML Select. How does SELECTED gets selected ( selected="selected" as appears on html)

Thank you in advance.
[ December 13, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Bear Bibeault]

"pavlentey",

There aren't many rules that you need to worry about here on the Ranch, but one that we take very seriously regards the use of proper names. Please take a look at the JavaRanch Naming Policy and adjust your display name to match it.

In particular, your display name must be a first and a last name separated by a space character, and must not be obviously fictitious.

Thanks!
bear
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[Prabhu Venkatachalam]

I guess, your question is " How Struts TLD works?"

If you say <html:select multiple="true">, container calls the TLD class, and according to the attribute values and child elements you give, it produces equivalent HTML output in the place you called.

hth,

[paul pavlentey]

Thank you for your reply.
but my question was how do you set selected value for a child element inside of select or doest it get set by Struts?

[Prabhu Venkatachalam]

It seems like struts not supporting this attribute.

You can try by using below tag with iteration,

<htmlption key="" value="" selected>blah</htmlption>