Strange search_common behavior ... two "selected" options?

[Kevlar]

Note: This is on the "seach multiple content types" tab...

I was looking at the search_common template to change the default sort results by option to date (instead of relevance) and found the following. It looks like date is already selected="selected" in the search_common template, but for some reason, when you display the page, it renders out a second selected="selected" option for relevance (so there are two and by default the second overrides the first).

Is this normal behavior? I would think there should only be one selected="selected" option...

<ul class="multifield group">

	<li>


	<select name="sortby" tabindex="1">


	<option value="title">Title</option>


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


	<option value="user">User Name</option>


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


	</select>


	</li>


	<li>


	<select name="order" tabindex="1">


	<option value="descending" selected="selected">in Descending Order</option>


	<option value="ascending">in Ascending Order</option>


	</select>


	</li>

</ul>

For the time being, I commented out the <option value="relevance" selected="selected">Relevance</option> ... but I just wanted to see if this was normal behavior.

[Mark.B]

I can confirm this on my own site:

<option value="dateline" selected="selected" >Date</option>
<option value="user" >User Name</option>
<option value="relevance" selected="selected">Relevance</option>

You might want to add your comments to this tracker entry:
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-2177
As i think that's related to this.