In IE, when a <label> is attached to a <select> element, and the user clicks the label, the <select> is selected, but its selectedIndex becomes 0.
Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: splintor.
Explorer 5-6 Windows | Reported on 21 September 2005.
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2 Posted by Rob on 23 September 2005 | Permalink
For those fighting this bug, check out the xDOM suite: http://slingfive.com/pages/code/xdom/
It's a set of DHTML Behaviors which transparently fix this and other IE bugs.
1 Posted by splintor on 22 September 2005 | Permalink
Please note that in my linked blog post, I added a link to MSDN article which reports this problem, and also suggested a better workaround.