SELECTED Attribute | selected Property
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Sets or retrieves whether the option in the list box is the default item.
Syntax
| HTML | <OPTION SELECTED
... >
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| Scripting | OPTION.selected [ = bSelected ] |
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Possible Values
| bSelected | Boolean that
specifies or receives one of the following values.| false | Default. Item is not selected as the default. | | true | Item is selected as the default. |
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The property is read/write.
The property has a default value of
false.
Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see>About Dynamic Properties.
Remarks
If the property is not set, the first item is selected by default.
The property determines whether a value is submitted with the form. If the value of the control matches the default value, the control's value is not submitted. The value is submitted only when the control's value does not match the default value.
To select an item in HTML, it is not necessary to set the value of the SELECTED attribute to true. The mere presence of the SELECTED attribute set its value to true.
Standards Information
property is defined in
HTML 3.2 
and
defined in
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .
Applies To
See Also
defaultSelected
