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Re: MSIE5 better but still buggy (was: Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer)
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Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:52:28 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Asher Kobin writes:
Does MSIE give any other way (though perhaps
some other ATTRIBUTE) whereby an HTML author can send a multiple-select list
and guarantee that _zero_ of the list items are preselected?  That would be
a nice workaround to the shortcoming in the spec.

I don't understand your question...

I have a web page on www.lugnet.com which sends out four multiple-select
lists.  In each of those lists, I want _none_ of the list items to be
pre-selected.  If the user clicks Submit without explicitly selecting any
items in any of those list boxes, I don't want the browser to tell me that
the user has done so.  I want to be able to detect the condition of "nothing
selected."  Also, if the user clicks the Reset-form button, I don't want the
first list item to be auto-selected again.

Is there a way to write this in MSIE using "canonical" tag attributes (that
is, by avoiding JavaScript or VBScript) in the <SELECT> tag?  For the time
being, to work around this shortcoming (I'll not call it a bug) in MSIE by
adding a faux item "-------" at the top of the list if the browser is any
version of MSIE (the shortcoming persists in MSIE5).

--Todd



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  Re: MSIE5 better but still buggy (was: Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer)
 
(...) Ok, well I couldn't stop from smiling when I read your post. It sounds to me that Netscape did a little "embracing and extending" of its own in this area :) (...) I don't understand your question... (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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