<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" /> <html> <head> <title>Programmatically selected popup item not shown</title> <script type="text/javascript"> function testMyPopup() { var myPopup = document.getElementById('testPopup'); for (var i = 0; i < myPopup.options.length; i++) { if (myPopup.options[i].value == "2") myPopup.options[i].selected = true; } } </script> </head> <!--body--> <body onload="testMyPopup();"> <p>The popup below has the item "FAIL" selected by default in the html, but a javascript function triggered from the body's onload changed it to "PASS" (assuming you saw an alert telling you so).</p> <p>Problem: In old versions of WebKit the change was not visible until you click on the popup.</p> <form action="get"> <select id="testPopup"> <option value="0"></option> <option value="1">One</option> <option value="2">PASS</option> <option value="3" selected="selected">FAIL</option> </select> </form> </body> </html>