26535 2014-08-07 01:41:34 +0000 The selected IDL attribute should also reflect the selected HTML attribute. This would be of benefit to devtools, and just generally result in less dissonance in the DOM. 2014-09-12 18:07:48 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-option-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian caitpotter88 ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 110013 0 contributor 2014-08-07 01:41:34 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-option-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-option-element Referrer: Comment: The selected IDL attribute should also reflect the selected HTML attribute. This would be of benefit to devtools, and just generally result in less dissonance in the DOM. Posted from: 99.237.75.191 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36 110014 1 caitpotter88 2014-08-07 01:57:20 +0000 To expand on that, it would be useful for developer tools because it's useful for the DOM to reflect the actual state of the element. The presence of the "selected" attribute seems to indicate that the element is selected, but because the attribute is reflected, this might actually be incorrect. Also, reflecting `selected` would possibly be of some use to persons styling the control with CSS, too. 110028 2 caitpotter88 2014-08-07 13:53:50 +0000 The `defaultSelected` attribute is a bit of an issue, I'm not sure how many sites are using it, but if there was room for a breaking change, I'd want that to reflect a `default` attribute instead, again because of the dissonance. 110153 3 ian 2014-08-13 18:34:58 +0000 Changing this would radically change the semantics of the API. It's highly unlikely that we can change this decade+ old API at this point. 110154 4 caitpotter88 2014-08-13 18:37:50 +0000 Yeah, I've seen that this probably breaks things pretty bad =( If it's ever possible to change this into a less awful state of being, I'd love for that to happen. But I guess for the time being it's probably a non-starter :( 111453 5 ian 2014-09-12 18:07:48 +0000 Closing per comment 4.