Re^2: Passing 'SELECT MULTIPLE' parameters and CGI

[viffer]

Thanks guys, but I'm not even getting the value in 'runs' to worry about changing the query part. I will fix that up (thank you) as soon as I manage to actually pass multiple values to the called program.
Incidentally I do have warnings and strict, I just pasted snippets.

The weird thing is I have

my $selectline = '<SELECT name="runs" MULTIPLE size="15" id="runs">';
print $selectline;

Running it in debug, that's what appears to be printed, yet when I look at the source on IE8 it has it as

<select name="runs" id="runs" size="15" multiple="multiple">

and firefox has it as

<select id="runs" size="15" multiple="" name="runs">

In both instances it seems to have changed the order and set MULTIPLE to either "" or "multiple".
I'm wondering if it's simply not picking up the 'multiple' setting as it correctly passes down individually selected items but not multiple selections,

[ikegami]

In both instances it seems to have changed the order and set MULTIPLE to either "" or "multiple".

The value of multiple doesn't matter, just the presence or absence of the attribute.

[afoken]

I think this is only true for HTML, but XHTML insists on having a value for multiple, and it must be multiple. The same applies to checked and other "no-value" attributes.

Alexander

[ikegami]

The only difference is that XML (and thus XHTML) requires that you specify a value if you specify the attribute. XHTML does not impose any extra requirements on what the value is.

It's must either be multiple="multiple" in both or in neither.