On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Damian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Been banging my head against this for a bit - the following code in
> mako:
> <%
> selectvals = {'U':'Not specified','M':'Male','F':'Female'}
> %>
> ${selectvals[c.Gender]}
> - change to:
> ${h.select('gender', c.Gender, selectvals.items())}
>
> (where c.Gender is set to 'F' for example) quite happily displays
> Female - change to: and then the select box, but with no default! I
> cannot seem to get it to work - it works fine if integers are used,
> but refuses when a string is used. The Html output is:
>
> Female - change to:
> <select name="gender">
> <option value="M">Male</option>
> <option value="U">Not specified</option>
> <option value="F">Female</option>
> </select>
>
> using WebHelpers 0.6.3.
>
> am I missing something? Thanks.
The second argument should be the value ('U'). You're probably
passing the prompt instead ('Not specified').
$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from webhelpers.html import tags
>>> selectvals = {'U':'Not specified','M':'Male','F':'Female'}
>>> print tags.select('gender', 'U', selectvals.items())
<select id="gender" name="gender">
<option value="M">Male</option>
<option selected="selected" value="U">Not specified</option>
<option value="F">Female</option>
</select>
>>> print tags.select('gender', 'Not specified', selectvals.items())
<select id="gender" name="gender">
<option value="M">Male</option>
<option value="U">Not specified</option>
<option value="F">Female</option>
</select>
>>>
Hint: by using a list of pairs rather than a dict, you can control the
order of the prompts.
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