{"id":1978,"date":"2018-11-19T11:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:08:46","slug":"bug-always-display-state-as-a-pulldown-in-zen-cart-1-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/19\/bug-always-display-state-as-a-pulldown-in-zen-cart-1-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"BUG: Always Display State as a Pulldown in Zen Cart 1.5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a bug in Zen Cart 1.5.5 that causes the State dropdown not to be correctly populated when you set\u00a0Configuration->Customer Details->State - Always display as pulldown<\/code>to true in Admin->Configuration->Customer Details.<\/code>\u00a0 It causes your State dropdown menu to look like this:<\/p>\n

\"Zen<\/p>\n

even though the value of State has been set.<\/p>\n

You can see the root cause of this error in the Chrome Javascript debugger.\u00a0 Right click and select Inspect<\/code>, then click the Console<\/code>\u00a0tab, and you’ll see the traceback for the error.<\/p>\n

\"Traceback<\/p>\n

The root cause of the error was that the stText<\/code>\u00a0element id was removed from the default template Zen Cart 1.5.5, an attempt to modify that DOM element failed, and stopped JavaScript processing.\u00a0 The fix was straightforward; just check for this element’s existence before updating it.\u00a0 You can pull the fix from Github<\/a> and apply it to your Zen Cart 1.5.5 site, or hire me to do it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a bug in Zen Cart 1.5.5 that causes the State dropdown not to be correctly populated when you set\u00a0Configuration->Customer Details->State – Always display as pulldownto true in Admin->Configuration->Customer Details.\u00a0 It causes your State dropdown menu to look like this: even though the value of State has been set. You can see the root cause … Continue reading BUG: Always Display State as a Pulldown in Zen Cart 1.5.5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-that-software-guy","category-zen-cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}