Strange drop down box behavior

HTML & CSS
1

hey guys,

I got a very strange behavior of drop down box and tried to fix a lot but couldn’t. So, I am posting here now.

I have a list of options in drop down and also have set a selected option there.
when i select any other option and refresh the page (not submit form) it preserves my selected option currently in drop down. whether it should selected that option in which i have attribute the selected. very annoying

 <select name="select2" id="select2">
      <option value="1">1</option>
      <option value="2">2</option>
      <option value="3" selected="selected">3</option>
      <option value="4">4</option>
      <option value="5">5</option>
    </select>
2

It is probably supposed to do that (I have to assume you are just hitting F5) rather than SHIFT+F5/RELOAD which in Firefox will reset the form but doesn’t seem to do in some other browsers. It’s a User Agent thing rather than your HTML. Although technically it is recommended the select be the choice displayed as default on a load.

3

I am using the browser button of FF for refresh.
but how i should convince to my client. This behavior is just in FF not other browsers.

4

You simply tell them plain HTML is incapable of “memorising things” and that is what the browser does/chooses.

Tell them the truth or just show them an example by using both methods, i.e. the plain ‘Reload’ F5 or the; ‘Reload (override cache)’, i.e. CTRL+F5 or CTRL+SHIFT+R

Else tell them “I, said so…” that will make them tremble in there boots! :wink: