Visualforce error when creating a apex:repeat on a selectoption

Question

Okay, I've been banging my head trying to figure out how to get around this issue without writing unnecessary code.

I have the following Visualforce code that is causing a error when saving:

<select id="rec_count">
    <apex:repeat value="{!pg}" var="selpg">
        <option {!IF(selpg.value = selectedpgtxt, 'selected','')} value="{!selpg.value}" >
              {!selpg.value}
        </option>
    </apex:repeat>
</select>

The error is: Error: Element type "option" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".

Apparently the visual force parser is upset about a option tag not having a attribute for the {!IF(selpg.value = selectedpgtxt, 'selected','')}.

I have tried the equivalent of:

<option selected="" value="1">1</option>
<option selected="selected" value="2">2</option>

However browser considers all of the options selected doing this.

Answer 1

Unless this is considered unnecessary code, the following seems pretty straightforward to me.

Visualforce:

<apex:selectList value="{!theSelection}">
   <apex:selectOptions value="{!theList}"/>
</apex:selectList>

Apex:

// Top of class
public List<SelectOption> theList {get; private set;}
public String theSelection {get; set;}


// In constructor
this.theList = new List<SelectOption>();
this.theList.add(new SelectOption('1', 'First Option'));
this.theList.add(new SelectOption('2', 'Second Option'));

// Now for the default
this.theSelection = '1';