Selection Control

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> Currently, the select control renders showing the first item in the  
> list. Is
> there anyway to render the control so that the input control is  
> blank and
> the user has to actually select an item from the list.
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> You can put an element with a blank value into your instance.
>
> A.
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> On Jun 29, 2008, at 5:14 PM, jalateras wrote:
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>> Currently, the select control renders showing the first item in the
>> list. Is
>> there anyway to render the control so that the input control is
>> blank and
>> the user has to actually select an item from the list.
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> You may want to try this ...
>
> <xforms:select1 ref="post_addx_district">
> <xforms:item>
> <xforms:label>Choose One...</xforms:label><xforms:value/>
> </xforms:item>
> <xforms:itemset nodeset="instance('districts-instance')/district">
> <xforms:label ref="name"/><xforms:value ref="value"/>
> </xforms:itemset>
> <xforms:alert>Invalid Data</xforms:alert>
> </xforms:select1><br/>
>
> Add a <xforms:item> before the actual <xforms:itemset
> nodeset="instance('districts-instance')/district">
>
> Your model for the drop-down select is with relevant data and the  
> blank
> option is in the view.
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> HTH
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> Paul Kelly-5 wrote:
>>
>> How do you get the first item in a drop-down list to be blank?
>> Currently, it renders the first item in the list and that won't even
>> populate the instance (i.e. it doesn't count as a selection). I've
>> inluded an old thread on this topic below. I don't like the idea of
>> inserting a blank into the instance for a number of reasons:
>>
>> 1) it's a pain to do so if you are accessing external instances
>> 2) it violates mvc principles to add something irrelevant to the
>> "model" for the sake of a view workaround. Besides, other xforms
>> implementations (like Mozilla pugin) provide that blank first option.
>>
>> Thanks a lot. Hopefully the answer is simple.
>>
>>
>> On 30-Jun-08, at 7:12 AM, Alexander Zatko wrote:
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>>> You can put an element with a blank value into your instance.
>>>
>>> A.
>>>
>>> On Jun 29, 2008, at 5:14 PM, jalateras wrote:
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>>>> Currently, the select control renders showing the first item in the
>>>> list. Is
>>>> there anyway to render the control so that the input control is
>>>> blank and
>>>> the user has to actually select an item from the list.
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