Rails spinoffs - Aug 2006 - setting a select box (in IE)

I am working on a Form, where there is customer and billing info, In  
a lot of cases, these would be the same, so I have a "Copy from  
above" button that copies the customer info into the billing info  
fields.

I use

	$(''b_country'').value = $F(''c_country'');
	new Effect.Highlight($(''b_country''));

This works great on everything on Firefox, but fails on the select  
box in IE.

What is the correct way to set a value of a Select on IE??

Thanks.

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Alex Duffield . Principal . InControl Solutions . http:// 
www.incontrolsolutions.com





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Alex Duffield wrote:
> I use 
> 
> $(''b_country'').value = $F(''c_country'');
> new Effect.Highlight($(''b_country''));
> 
> This works great on everything on Firefox, but fails on the select box 
> in IE. 
Perhaps:

$$(''#b_country
option[value=''+$F(''c_country'')+'']'')[0].selected
= true;

The above code is just off the top of my head and of course would not 
work if the <option> was not using the "value" attribute and
instead
defaulting from the contents of the <option>.

Eric