Rails - Mar 2006 - Ajax.Updater dropping first <OPTION> on IE?

I am attempting to use Ajax.Updater to update the innerHTML of a SELECT - 
that is, to feed it a list of <option>..</option> sets generated
from a
partial.

It works as expected on FF1.5, but in IE6 it renders as an empty select. 
When I use the DOM viewer (or an alert()) to dump the value of innerHTML, it 
appears intact EXCEPT that the first <option> is missing with no 
explanation.

I''ve tried an increasingly ridiculous set of things to fool IE into 
rendering properly, including <option><option>..</option> on
the first
partial iteration.. nothing. Frankly, it''s a little Twilight Zone.

Is this just old news? Do I have to resort to using 
document.createElement(''OPTION'') here?

Pete

Of course, the "a-ha!" came moments after posting..

http://www.roryhansen.ca/?p=9

"You cannot modify the InnerHTML of a select drop-down list. Instead, you 
have to modify the InnerHTML of the div that _contains_ the select drop-down 
list, and when you do you have to recreate the whole drop-down."

Who hates IE? I do - more each day, actually.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Forde" <pete@unspace.ca>
To: <rails@lists.rubyonrails.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:48 AM
Subject: [Rails] Ajax.Updater dropping first <OPTION> on IE?

>I am attempting to use Ajax.Updater to update the innerHTML of a SELECT - 
>that is, to feed it a list of <option>..</option> sets generated
from a
>partial.