[RESOLVED] Whitespaces between selection list names do not display correctly

[masimies]

Hello,
Tried again to find corrective solution for this with no luck....

I have category names in table with space in name, like "Danny the dog"

Query results in option rows displays those correctly. But when selected and posted it to next div with echoing it, it displays only the first letters like "Danny".

The code goes like this:
$cat = mysqli_query($db,"SELECT * FROM $categorytable ORDER BY catname ASC");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($cat)) {
$catname=$row['catname'];
echo'<option value="'.$catname.'">'.$catname.'</option>'; }
echo'</select></form></div></div>'; }

if(isset($POST['category'])) {
$category=$POST['category'];
echo'<div class="centerpage">
<label class="plan" style="float:left; width:auto; height:auto; margin:auto; font-size:3em;">'.$category.'</label>

So, in that label, after value has posted, '.$category.' displays only "Danny".

Tried already all combinations of double-quotes and htmlspecialchars....

Something wrong in post-phase,because it echoes correctly in option tag? Have to post it somekind of other way?

[pbismad]

If you have been refreshing the page after making changes to the html, so that the changes are in effect, the posted code does work.

It's likely that you have some broken html prior to that point and when the browser gets to the option value attributes it cannot figure out what part of it is the value. Have you validated the page at validator.w3.org ?

Also, how are you submitting the data? A html form or javascript/jquery? You could be capturing the value incorrectly and only sending the first full word of it as data.

[masimies]

Yep, there was incorrect order with form. Moving iiset to upper position, it start to work correctly.
Simple solution :-D