Re: value property of the HTMLSelectElement from Thomas Much on 2001-08-09 (www-dom@w3.org from July to September 2001)

From: Thomas Much <thomas@snailshell.de>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 12:03:19 +0200
To: <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <B7982879.67F8%thomas@snailshell.de>

am 09.08.2001 2:46 Uhr schrieb David Flanagan unter david@oreilly.com:

> The DOM Level 1 specification (1st edition) and the working draft of the
> DOM Level 2 HTML specification both specify that the HTMLSelectElement
> interface has a property named "value" which is documented as "the
> current value of the form control".

The current value of the form control is the value of the currently selected
OPTION - it's a convenient shortcut, and most Mac browsers (MSIE, NS6, Moz,
Opera, iCab) support it. I suppose Windows browsers do the same.

bye, Thomas

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