"Selected" Attribute in <option> tag, Not working...maybe somone can help? Options

[*mipadi*]

Hi,

This isn't really related to my blog, but it's related to a website I am working on. Basically I working with entries in a database. The page in question is attempting to edit an existing entry. One of the data fields is a date.

I'm trying to create a menu that will allow the user to change the day; however, the existing day is supposed to be pre-selected. Unfortunately, the day is defaulting to 1, not the selected day--even though selected is set in the <option> tag. Here is the HTML:

CODE

<select name="EventDateDay">
     <option value="1">1</option><option value="2">2</option><option value="3">3</option><option value="4">4</option><option value="5">5</option><option value="6">6</option><option value="7">7</option><option value="8">8</option><option value="9" selected>9</option><option value="10">10</option><option value="11">11</option><option value="12">12</option><option value="13">13</option><option value="14">14</option><option value="15">15</option><option value="16">16</option><option value="17">17</option><option value="18">18</option><option value="19">19</option><option value="20">20</option><option value="21">21</option><option value="22">22</option><option value="23">23</option><option value="24">24</option><option value="25">25</option><option value="26">26</option><option value="27">27</option><option value="28">28</option><option value="29">29</option><option value="30">30</option><option value="31">31</option>

       </select>

Note that the proper value ("9") does in fact have the selected attribute set, but the page is still drawn with 1 as the default.

It's also interesting to note that it works properly in IE, but not Firefox.

Here is the script I wrote to select the proper value (it's in VBScript because this is an ASP site):

CODE

<select name="EventDateDay">
     <%
     For i = 1 to 31
         If i = Day(eventDate) Then
       Response.Write "<option value=""" & i & """ selected>" & i & "</option>"
         Else
       Response.Write "<option value=""" &  i & """>" & i & "</option>"
         End If
     Next
     %>
       </select>

"eventDate" is the variable that holds the date for the database record I am pulling.