as soon as I've submitted the message I've found the answer.
I just used the "blankLabel" option. duh!
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Great, thanks for the response.
but that leads me to another question. The specification says:
"The value for the blank option is always the empty string, the label may be
the blank string;"
I wonder if that could be set to anything else?
cheers
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The Select component has a parameter "blankOption" with a default value of AUTO:
http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.6/apidocs/index.html?org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Select.html
and the meaning of AUTO is here:
http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.6/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry
