html:select default value overwriting bean value

[Ansley, Tom]

Hi all,

 

I have the following code:

 

  <td class="form_field" width='34%'>

      <html:select property="countryID" tabindex="11">

            <html:options collection="country" property="ID"
labelProperty="country"/>

      </html:select>

  </td>

 

Which basically gets a list of countries and displays them.  But, it
also gets the value that resides in the beans getCountryID method and
sets the value of the drop down to that.

 

But, if I do this:

 

  <td class="form_field" width='34%'>

      <html:select property="countryID" tabindex="11" value="US">

            <html:options collection="country" property="ID"
labelProperty="country"/>

      </html:select>

  </td>

 

The value="US" always overwrites what is in the bean.

 

I would like it to only put that default value into the page if there is
NO value in the bean.

 

Can this be done? 

 

Thanks

Tom Ansley