Simple HTML here. Maybe one of you can tell me why firefox is breaking everything.
Somehow, it seems that Firefox handles <select multiple> in a different and unknown way from what Opera and Konqueror do, and different from the W3C standard. This simplified test page validates, and works in Opera and Konqueror (presumably IE too), but in Firefox it doesn't pre-select the selected options and when you make a selection in one of the boxes it undoes your selection in the other box:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><head><title>Test</title></head> <body> <form action="">
Just tried the code for you with Homesite, Avant, IE7, Firefox 2 & Firefox3 - I also tried it in AOL for good measure. They all behave the same. Description is preselected in both boxes when viewing the page and changing a selection in one box doesn't affect the other. I've also tried the code locally - I'm running WinXP if that even matters - as well as remotely on one of my hosted sites which are on unix boxes.
I know you don't show it in this simplified code, but could you be using any styles that might be affecting firefox? Shot in the dark, but it's a thought.
I tested the exact HTML above saved as "test.html" on my desktop, so no styles in the page, and I don't think Firefox offers user styles.
Anyhow that's good to hear, my Firefox version must just be broken (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0). Though how a version where common HTML doesn't work could ship or break after shipping I don't know.
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Simple HTML here. Maybe one of you can tell me why firefox is breaking everything.
Somehow, it seems that Firefox handles <select multiple> in a different and unknown way from what Opera and Konqueror do, and different from the W3C standard. This simplified test page validates, and works in Opera and Konqueror (presumably IE too), but in Firefox it doesn't pre-select the selected options and when you make a selection in one of the boxes it undoes your selection in the other box:
Any ideas? Couldn't find anything relevant in google. Using Firefox 3 here. Do you get the same bad behavior in Firefox 2?
The result of this problem is that if you edit your settings in Firefox you lose all your code, smilie, required field etc selections.
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Just tried the code for you with Homesite, Avant, IE7, Firefox 2 & Firefox3 - I also tried it in AOL for good measure. They all behave the same. Description is preselected in both boxes when viewing the page and changing a selection in one box doesn't affect the other. I've also tried the code locally - I'm running WinXP if that even matters - as well as remotely on one of my hosted sites which are on unix boxes.
I know you don't show it in this simplified code, but could you be using any styles that might be affecting firefox? Shot in the dark, but it's a thought.
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I tested the exact HTML above saved as "test.html" on my desktop, so no styles in the page, and I don't think Firefox offers user styles.
Anyhow that's good to hear, my Firefox version must just be broken (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0). Though how a version where common HTML doesn't work could ship or break after shipping I don't know.
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Just to confirm it worked ok for me too in Firefox 2
Items were pre-selected, on changing it did not affect the other