Oh, duh. You mean whatever their last selection was prior to the change. Sorry!
Can you pop each successful update into a global var, and then restore from that when they cancel? - jason On Mar 24, 6:22 pm, Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 24, 3:08 pm, Jason Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If your first <option> element has an empty value attribute, you can > > do this: > > > $('select').change(function(){ > > alert($(this).val()); > > $(this).val(''); > > > }); > > I wish. The XHTML is written dynamically and the selected element is > anywhere in the list. > > I'm playing with the defaultSelected property now. I think the answer > is in there. I'll post a follow up when I figure it out.