SELECT field options disappear when saving widget

Question

I'm having an interesting problem that I can't seem to solve.

While creating a widget, I have created a select field with options that can be chosen on the widget screen. It all works perfectly fine, except when I save the widget, all of the options in the select field vanish. They all come back, with my chosen option saved, as soon as I refresh.

The code for each of the select options looks like this:

foreach ($posttypes as $option) { echo '<option id="' . $option->name . '"', $posttype == $option->name ? ' selected="selected"' : '', '>', $option->name, '</option>'; }

In this case, $posttypes is an array of post types.

When the select fields are rendered, they look like this:

<select name="option-name" id="option-name"> <option value="option-value">Option Value</option> <option value="option-value">Option Value</option> <option value="option-value">Option Value</option> </select>

Any ideas why they would vanish like this?

Answer 1

Found it. There was an extra closing slash on the opening select field.