RE: Persistent SELECT SELECTED in Forms.

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

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> I would really like to use SELECT for the State/Province field in the
> checkout.html file, but after the form is refreshed (by doing anything
> with the State field) the SELECT box changes back to the default.
>
> This is not surprising.
>
> However, I noted that in the Credit Card Month/Year area we have this:
>
> <SELECT name="mv_credit_card_exp_year">
> 	<OPTION VALUE=98 [selected mv_credit_card_exp_year 98]> 1998
> 	<OPTION VALUE=99 [selected mv_credit_card_exp_year 99]> 1999
> </SELECT>
>
> Now, this looks to me like Minivend uses the [selected] tag to
> dynamically select the appropriate option based on the current value in
> mv_credit_card_exp_year...
>
> However, I can't for the life of me get this to work with "state" such
> as:
>
> <SELECT name="state">
> 	<OPTION VALUE="California" [selected state "California">
> California
> 	<OPTION VALUE="New York" [selected state "New York"> New York
> </SELECT>
>

Your example is missing closing ]'s. I assume a typo. You should read the
section "Checks and Selections" in the docs carefully again. I glanced at
it (3.12) and it looks like is should be something like:

<SELECT name="state">
	<OPTION [selected name="state" value="california"]>California
	<OPTION [selected name="state" value="new york"]>New York
</SELECT>

On the shopping cart it would be:

<SELECT name="[modifier-name state]">
	<OPTION [selected name="[modifier-name state]"
value="california"]>California
	<OPTION [selected name="[modifier-name state]" value="new york"]>New York
</SELECT>

> I've tried subing in numbers for the values such as:
>
> <OPTION VALUE=1 [selected state 1> California
>
> But even that doesn't help.  So I'm left with the conclusion that:
>
> 1.  Minivend treats the mv_credit_card_exp_year/month variables special
> (I doubt and hope that this is not the case)
> 2.  I need to define this elsewhere in some other part of Minivend.
>
> If anyone else has SELECT working with [selected variable value] in
> mvend, please point me in the right direction.
>
> Cheers!
>
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