How to default a dropdown to Blank

[Weese]

I want a dropdown to be defaulted to blank initially.
After the user selects some value blank should go away.
This I am able to achieve in IE. But not in Mozilla or Netscape.

Please guide me .....

 

[mwolf00]

Is this what you need?

<select>
<option value=&quot;&quot; SELECTED>
<option value=&quot;1&quot;>One
</select>

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[onpnt]

hmm.. how about a blank option??
<select>
<option></option>

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[Weese]

This is not what my requirement.

There should not be any blank option.But it should be defaulted with blank.

eg. frm.cboSelect.value = &quot;&quot;;
sets it to blank without adding a new blank option.

This I have achieve in Mozilla / Netscape

 

[jemminger]

hi Weese,

using [tt]frm.cboSelect.value = &quot;&quot;;[/tt] just isn't the correct way to do it. the fact that it defaults to a blank &quot;option&quot; in IE is most likely a quirk.

if you want an empty value to be presented initially in all browsers, you must have an empty <option></option>

if you can't live with that blank option in there after another option is selected, use script to remove it.





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