[Kss-devel] Changing a form selection

[Rob Campbell]

On 3/22/07, Balazs Ree <ree at ree.hu> wrote:
>
> I don't understand how the changing of the id could do anything with the
> selection.
>
> But answering to the question, no, I don't remember that we have tried
> this actually. (Maybe, Christian Klinger did something similar?) Now I
> just looked up the html specifications, and it says that the initial
> selection can be set by setting the "selected" attribute on the option
> tag (or tags) that are selected.
>
> However, to see if that works if you change it on an already rendered
> page, you must try that, and what's more, you need to try it in all the
> different supported browsers. Because without that you may never know if
> it would actually work.
>
> For example, in IE we run into the problem that if we replace or add one
> or more option tags (as in the second kss demo), they would not change in
> the page. So for example on IE the only way to change the options is to
> replace the entire select, including the select tag itself. It took a
> long time to figure out this.
>
> I am not saying that changing just the selection would raise similar
> issues but testing this would be essential. Also once it works it would
> be worth to make a new demo page in the kss demo product, for being able
> to test this in the automated tests.
>
> --
> Balazs Ree

Thank you for the information.  Is there a way to get the current
options through kss?  I could use replaceHtml(), but I wouldn't want
to hardcode the options since they may change.  I didn't see any
commands in kss that could read in the options so I could modify them.

-- 
Rob Campbell
KG6HUM