cfselect and required

[gtbikerider]

I am trying to force a selection be made from a dropdown list. Using "cfselect" and setting required to "yes" would appear to prevent selection of the "selected" option, but it doesn't work. Any idea what I am missing, or is this a bug that has to be worked around with javascript?


<cfselect name=&quot;myname&quot; required=&quot;Yes&quot; message=&quot;you must select something&quot;>
<option value=&quot;null&quot; selected>Please Select</option>
<option value=&quot;1&quot;>option 1</option>
<option value=&quot;2&quot;>option 2</option>


--
John Carratt

http://www.redleaf.co.uk

 

[CFDude]

I don't use the cfform stuff, but can you have &quot;null&quot; as the value of the Select option, which would pass a string of &quot;null&quot; Try putting no value in there and see if that fixes it:

<option value=&quot;&quot; selected>Please Select</option>

 

[gtbikerider]

Makes no difference. Either way CF allows the user to not select anything on the drop down and happily passes &quot;null&quot; or &quot;&quot;.

I'm passing null so that I can check it later, but I want it checked in the browser really, manually coding it with javascript seems klunky. --
John Carratt

http://www.redleaf.co.uk

 

[CFDude]

Well, I haven't used cfform stuff very much, but worth a shot.

I believe you can put your own javascript functions to check onsubmit of the form -- here is what I use on my select lists: (where frm1 is the name of the form and selectFieldName is the name of the select list)

<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
function checkForm()
{
if (document.frm1.selectFieldName.options[document.frm1.selectFieldName.options.selectedIndex].value == '')
{
alert(&quot;Please select something&quot;
}
}


</script>