FilteringSelect: don't require options to have value attribute

[jthg]

dijit.form.FilteringSelect does not initialize properly if the children option elements do not have the value attribute. Firefox 3.5 w/ Firebug has the following in the console: node is undefined - dojo.js, Line 16

The following codes fails:

<select dojoType="dijit.form.FilteringSelect" id="id1" name="name1">
  <option>foo</option>
  <option>bar</option>
  <option>foobar</option>
</select>

and, the following code succeeds in initializing the FilteringSelect?:

<select dojoType="dijit.form.FilteringSelect" id="id2" name="name2">
  <option value="foo">foo</option>
  <option value="bar">bar</option>
  <option value="foobar">foobar</option>
</select>

From what I can tell, value is not required in HTML; the value will default to the text content within the option tag. I would expect that to be the desired behaivor in Dojo.

[bill]

I guess so, although are you sure you don't want to be using ComboBox?

[jthg]

yeah - I think want to be using FilteringSelect?. That test case above is a very simplified version of what I am working on!

[dylan]

Given that no one has shown interest in creating a patch in the past 5+ years, I'm closing this as patchwelcome.