<cfselect> with Required="Yes" not working

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October 26, 2010
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I have this cfselect:

<CFSELECT name="country" SIZE="1" REQUIRED="Yes" message = "Please select a country">
                  <OPTION value=" ">Choose a Country</OPTION>
                  <OPTION VALUE="AF">Afghanistan [AF]</OPTION>
                 <OPTION VALUE="AL">Albania [AL]</OPTION>
                 <OPTION VALUE="DZ">Algeria [DZ]</OPTION>
               etc.

</CFSELECT>

However, according to CF8 manual on the Required parameter:

Note: This attribute has no effect if you omit the size attribute or set it to 1, because the browser always submits the displayed item. You can work around this issue: format forms by having an initial option tag with value=" " (notice the space character between the quotation marks).

yes: a list element must be selected when the form is submitted.
no

I tried to "work around" with and without the SIZE but CF still will NOT detect that the user did not select a country. What is wrong? The screen displays Choose a Country and it will pass.

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Anonymous

This may help..

http://www.cfjazz.com/post.cfm/making-cfselect-required-work-for-single-row-select

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jackhuangAuthor

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The extra javascript kind of worked but it will show blank in the list. Right now I have "Choose a Country" as the first item and I want it showing. The instruction given says "You can work around this issue: format forms by having an initial option tag with value=" " That is exactly what I have for the entry "Choose a Country", the value of which is " ". What is Adobe saying "work around this issue"? It isn't a work-around because it is not working. Am I missing something?

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