Select box: Set selected by value, index or title

[guest]

I'm missing a feature where you can set the selected option in a dojo.widget.Select box by using an index, a value or a title.

This feature request is thus for implementing three functions, e.g:

dojo.widget.Select.setSelectedByIndex(index)
dojo.widget.Select.setSelectedByValue(value)
dojo.widget.Select.setSelectedByTitle(title)

I went to the official Dojo IRC channel on freenode and was asked to put this in the bug tracker as a feature addition for 0.4.1. That's why I've set a Milestone despite not being a Dojo commiter.

[bill]

Hmm, this is kind of a big feature

• the part about setting value by index doesn't make sense (in all cases). like what's the index for google's auto-complete? there isn't one.
• the part about setting the value by value requires a new api to the server.
• the part about setting value by title... I assume by "title" you mean "label"

Moving to 0.5 for now.

[guest]

Actually, I just asked for setSelectedByValue() on the IRC channel and it was a guy named slightlyoff IIRC that mentioned I should include index and title in the ticket.

[haysmark@…]

For Select, you now use:

setValue(hiddenvalue)

or:

setTextValue(visiblelabel)

depending on what you have available.