Hello,

I'm stumped on this one. I set a SelectList ID in my Visualforce page, but when I view source, it's replaced with a much longer ID. This is causing a problem because this select list is a search box, so if the ID is wrong it's not passed to the search in the controller.

// Controller code that creates selectList options

public List<SelectOption> getTheAnalysts() {
List<SelectOption> analystoptions = new List<SelectOption>();
analystoptions.add(new selectOption('', ''));
for (User users : [SELECT Id, Name FROM User WHERE IsActive = true]) {
analystoptions.add(new selectOption(users.Id, users.Name));
}
return analystoptions;
}

// Visualforce display of selectList

<tr>
<td style="font-weight:bold;">Analyst<br/>
<apex:selectList id="analyst" size="1" value="{!theAnalyst}" onchange="doSearch();">
<apex:selectOptions value="{!theAnalysts}" />
</apex:selectList>
</td>
</tr>

// View source display of selectList

<tr>

<td style="font-weight:bold;">Analyst<br /><select id="j_id0:j_id27:mainresults:j_id59:analyst" name="j_id0:j_id27:mainresults:j_id59:analyst" size="1" onchange="doSearch();">

<option value="" selected="selected"></option>

<option value="XXXXX">User One</option>

<option value="XXXXX">User Two</option>

</select>

</td>

</tr>

Where is the start of that ID coming from? And how do I suppress it??

Thanks for any insight.

Marina