Help with default selected html:select

[tonyshirt]

I'm new to struts and I'm hoping someone can help.

I have a html:select statement on a action form.

<html:select property="dataSelect"
onchange="this.form.loadButtonJavaScript.value='true';
this.form.submit();">
<htmlptions collection="dataCollection" property="id"
labelProperty="name"/>
</html:select>

I want to be able to select an option other than the first one in
dataCollection.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

I want to be able to select an option other than the first one in
dataCollection.

<select>
<option value"Cat">
<option value="Dog" SELECTED>
<option value="Canary">
</select>

 

[tonyshirt]

Can I do it in context of datacollection? For instance Can I iterate
through the collection assigned to the htmlptions tag and select the
appropriate option? How do I reference the option array?

I tried options.selected and .value. i just got errors.