Name
defaultSelected — NN 2 IE 3 DOM 1
Synopsis
Read/Write
Whether element has the SELECTED
attribute set in
the tag. You can compare the current selected
property against defaultSelected
to see whether
the state of the select control has changed since the document
loaded. Changing this property does not affect the current
selected
status.
Example
var listItem = document.forms[0].selector.options[2]
if (listItem.selected != listItem.defaultSelected) {
process for changed state
}
Value
Boolean value: true
| false
.
Default
Determined by HTML tag attribute.
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