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danronmoon
danronmoon

Reputation: 3873

How to remove initial empty value for a dropdown attribute in Magento?

I'm using Magento version 1.5.1.0. I added an attribute with the following options selected in the Properties tab:

Catalog input type for store owner: dropdown
Unique value: no
Values required: no

I then went to the Manage Label/Options tab and added 3 different options, selecting the first option as a default. I added it to an attribute set, and when I go to enter a product, I see the dropdown, but with an empty option value prepended to it:

<select>
    <option selected="selected"></option>
    <option>Option 1</option>
    <option>Option 2</option>
    <option>Option 3</option>
</select>

When I save the product, the empty option still remains selected. How do I remove that empty option and make Option 1 the default for all of my existing products without resorting to using JS or editing any files whatsoever?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3471

Answers (2)

Xus
Xus

Reputation: 417

I think this can help.

When you call getAllOptions you need to pass false.

->getAllOptions(false)

Magento attribute dropdown with first empty value

Upvotes: 3

Sturm
Sturm

Reputation: 4285

<select name="history[status]" class="select" id="history_status">
     <option value="pending" selected="selected">Pending</option>
     <option value="canceled">Canceled</option>
     <option value="processing">Processing</option>
</select>

Try using the SELECT tag rather than option for this block. Here above I have an example taken from a Magento store. Your:

<option selected="selected></option>

Is exactly that. An option, rather than defining a select box.

Upvotes: 0

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