http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/ Ramblings about art, education, Linux and a lot more Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:26:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-109831 Ian Clifton Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:30:02 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-109831 Glad to have saved you some effort; I sure hope they fix this (among other things) in IE8. Glad to have saved you some effort; I sure hope they fix this (among other things) in IE8.

]]> http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-109801 Nato Saichek Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:37:25 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-109801 Thanks a pile. I've been hacking around on this problem for a while... ff works, IE doesn't (of course) and your entry did exactly what you were hoping: saved me a couple hours. Thanks! Thanks a pile. I’ve been hacking around on this problem for a while… ff works, IE doesn’t (of course) and your entry did exactly what you were hoping: saved me a couple hours.
Thanks!

]]> http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-189 IE7 Still Has Problems With Option Tag Values at Gordaen’s Blog Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:57:05 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-189 [...] A while back I posted about how IE6 and the beta versions of IE7 had problems with option tags. According to W3 standards, if no value attribute is specified, then the browser should use the text value (i.e., the value between the opening and closing option tags). [...] [...] A while back I posted about how IE6 and the beta versions of IE7 had problems with option tags. According to W3 standards, if no value attribute is specified, then the browser should use the text value (i.e., the value between the opening and closing option tags). [...]

]]> http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-35 Gordaen Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:35:14 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-35 Yes, that does work. It seems rather redundant, which is probably why they changed the HTML specs so many years ago... but the value attribute is good for when the values are different (such as you want to display "medium" but you want the value to be "3" for your program to use). Yes, that does work. It seems rather redundant, which is probably why they changed the HTML specs so many years ago… but the value attribute is good for when the values are different (such as you want to display “medium” but you want the value to be “3″ for your program to use).

]]> http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-34 Josh Schumacher Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:27:09 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-select-option-value/#comment-34 Very odd little quirk with accessing the selected value of an option tag in Internet Explorer using javascript. Another option, instead of referencing the text value is to actually provide a value in the option tag (ie <option value="Medium">Medium</option>) Very odd little quirk with accessing the selected value of an option tag in Internet Explorer using javascript. Another option, instead of referencing the text value is to actually provide a value in the option tag (ie <option value=”Medium”>Medium</option>)

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