27476 2014-12-01 00:51:02 +0000 the selected attribute should be removed from options elements and instead be set in the parent sele [...] 2015-08-13 07:18:43 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED INVALID https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-select-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 115713 0 contributor 2014-12-01 00:51:02 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-select-element Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-select-element Referrer: https://www.google.com/ Comment: the selected attribute should be removed from options elements and instead be set in the parent select element. its pretty retarded to set it in the child element of the element you will read the value from. other than that 0 complaints from me. Posted from: 173.218.168.124 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 115759 1 ian 2014-12-01 19:26:41 +0000 Unfortunately there's not much we can do to change this API, it's been implemented and shipped for over a decade now. :-(