Default Value in html:select

Hey Guys

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to make a default value for a select?

I don't trust my users to look at a dropdown which seems to have a value selected already (and doesn't) and think to select a value.

If you see what I mean... My dropdowns look as though they have a default value, but actually don't. If you don't select a value from them, it just seems to return null or empty string or something.

Any thoughts?

Alister

I hope this will answer your query.

Suppose you have dropdown which displays names of users. The name of the field is userName. In your form bean you will be having a field with the name userName and another field namesOfUsers which will be the collection of users which will be displayed in the dropdown. Now if you set the Default value in the actionform in the userName field. It will be displayed as the selected value.

<html:select property="userName">

<html

ptionsCollection property="namesOfUsers" />

</html:select>

Alister,
Take a look at Struts' validation. You can specify that that field can't be null/empty. Struts will then check in both javascript and on the server side that the user selected a value.

Thanks for that.

Actually, it seems it was problems with the displaying of my results which was causing the problem, not with select at all.

That's the problem with having a fountain of all knowledge at my fingertips: it encourages me to ask first, search for an answer second.