[ic] Can I use the selected tag testing with a scratch variable?

[Ed LaFrance]

At 01:04 AM 11/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a form with a selection box that gets submitted on one page.
>On the next page I am trying to determine what the selected value
>was.  I can actually get the value of the selection box with
>[value-extended box_name].  I have set a scratch variable to this.
>Now I'm trying to test selection against either that value-extended or
>the scratch variable like this:
>
>[seti selected_value][value-extended box_name][/seti]
>[selected box_name scratch selected_value]

[selected name=box_name value="[scratch selected_value]"]

- Ed L.




>I'm hoping to just get the text 'SELECTED' in my page.  Once I get the
>selected tag to return "true" I can worry about putting it in the
>right place later.  What am I doing wrong here?
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