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Retaining seltected option

Ross Hulford 24 Mar 2014 16:32 question, complete

Hi,

I have 3 elect boxes and would like to add a 'selected' class after it has been selected, is this possible?

Country

Please Select
{exp:low_options:country}
{options}{option:label}{/options}

{/exp:low_options:country}

Replies

1. Low 24 Mar 2014 17:51

   Do you mean inside Low Search? Then you can use a conditional like this:
   
   

   {if option:value == '{low_search_search:country}'} ... {/if}

   
   
   Or if it has multiple options:
   
   

   {if option:value IN ({low_search_search:country})} ... {/if}

2. Ross Hulford 25 Mar 2014 09:35

   Hi,
   
   Trying this but getting an error
   
   {exp:low_options:country}
   {options}{option:label}
   {/options}

3. Low 25 Mar 2014 09:38

   What error message is that? Some HTML is stripped out. To avoid, you can use http://pastie.org/ or http://pastebin.com/ for large chunks of code.

4. Ross Hulford 25 Mar 2014 09:43

   sorry here is the full form
   
   http://pastie.org/8966743

5. Low 25 Mar 2014 09:45

   If you're encoding the query in the URI, you will need to add the query="" parameter to the Form tag, so it can remember the search query.
   
   You're also missing a closing curly bracket. It should be this:
   
   

   {if option:value IN ({low_search_search:country})} selected {/if}

6. Ross Hulford 25 Mar 2014 10:21

   Still getting the error
   
   Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'FALSE' (T_STRING)
   
   It looks ok
   
   http://pastie.org/8966827

7. Low 25 Mar 2014 10:26

   Make sure the query="" parameter points to the encoded query in the URI, eg. query="{segment_3}" (or {segment_2}, if that's the case).
   
   Also, not seeing any conditionals in that last pastie you shared.

8. Ross Hulford 25 Mar 2014 10:51

   sorry here it is
   
   http://pastie.org/8966895
   
   The problem seems to be with {option:value}

9. Low 25 Mar 2014 10:53

   Can you try this instead?
   
   

   {if '{option:value}' IN ({low_search_search:country})} selected {/if}

10. Ross Hulford 25 Mar 2014 11:19

    So I encoded the url.
    
    http://pastie.org/8966936
    
    I have no errors adding the '{option:value}' but it does not retain the value

11. Low 25 Mar 2014 11:26

    As I said, you need to add query="{segment_3}" to the Form tag if you're encoding the query. Your code currently doesn't have it, so it has no way of knowing what was submitted.