default option in html select

[Sarky78]

Hi all,

this is driving me crazy. I am trying to do two things.
firstly i am trying to get a html select to show a default option. I have seen this post:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1027369

but i can't get it to work.

This is what i have got at the moment:

<select name="CountryID">
<xsl:for-each select="//FormContent/countries/country">
<option value="{@id}"><xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:if test="'54911DA6-F0FA-237B-A411FE65AB85AAE4'=$Country">
<xsl:attribute name="selected">selected</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
</option>
</xsl:for-each>
</select>

2ndly i am trying to pass a param called Country into the xslt from a server side page, and i want to test to see if the passed param matches the value in my id attribute. when i try to do the comparison against the xml value it fails that's why i have the hardcoded value in there at the moment.

any ideas?

TIA

Tony

 

[JontyMC]

Attribute has to be directly after the node it refers to:

<select name="CountryID">
  <xsl:for-each select="//FormContent/countries/country">
    <option value="{@id}">
      <xsl:if test="'54911DA6-F0FA-237B-A411FE65AB85AAE4'=$Country">
        <xsl:attribute name="selected">selected</xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </option>
  </xsl:for-each>
</select>

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[Sarky78]

thanks for that. i think i tried everything else, but didn't even thinnk to try and change the order in which they would be displayed!

Have a star

Tony