Proper validation technique for select in eForm

I can’t seem to validate this select box with eForm

<select name="age" id="fAge" size="">
<option></option>
<option value="12-15">12-15</option>
<option value="16-20">16-20</option>
<option value="21-25">21-25</option>
<option value="26-30">26-30</option>
<option value="31-40">31-40</option>
<option value="41-50">41-50</option>
<option value="51-65">51-65</option>
<option value="65+">65+</option>
</select>

Basically I want to make sure the first option isn’t selected,
Anyone know the proper way to do this with eform?

I tried eform="Age::1"
and eform="Age::1::#LIST comma separated list of valid options"

but to no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

I just copied and pasted your select into one of my existing form and it works as expected without any changes other than adding the eform attribute.

Not selecting anything will give a "required" error as it should.

What version of eForm are you using? Perhaps post your complete form template and snippet call...

Ah ha..

You’re right... it does work as expected.
I stuck all of my select menus in chunks (because they are used in multiple forms),
but the eform=’’ attribute seems to be ignored by the eform snippet when used used in a chunk.
Do you know of a way around this?

Thanks for looking into this for me, either way I know what the problem is.

It get’s ignored because the chunk is replaced by MODx after eForm is finished processing so all that eForm sees is "{{ChunkName}}" The easiest solution is to not use a chunk.. The other option is to create an event function for the eFormOnBeforeParse event and insert the chunk into the template in that function. Search around the forum for some examples...

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,32439.0.html