[whatwg] [Web Forms 2.0] 2.3. Extensions to the select element - comment & proposal

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Garrett Smith wrote:
> 
> Currently there is a problem in at least Firefox, and I can't remember 
> about IE. If no OPTION has selected attribute, then Firefox will select 
> the first option in the list. If the first option is selected, it's 
> selected attribute will be true and the defaultSelected will be false. 
> This is because defaultSelected is required to return the value of the 
> HTML selected attribute.
> 
> The negative result this has is that it causes the form to appear dirty.

To work around this, manually mark the first element as selected.

I think it isn't a bug that it marks the form as dirty (as it were); the 
data that the server sent is that nothing was selected, yet the client 
would submit a value. This is a difference and it is right to act as if it 
is a difference, IMHO.

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