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I have a profile with a country field and a state field. In my Civi installation I have a default country set and I have all countries enabled.

The current behavior after page load of the profile fields is: the country select has nothing selected and offers all countries as options, with my default country listed first; the state select has nothing selected displays all states for all countries; then after selecting a country, the state select changes to only offer the the states of the selected country as options.

The behavior I desire is: after page load the country select has my default country selected

Why? ...usability. Some people are getting confused when they open the state select before opening the country. Also the javascript to do the state option filter can take upwards of 10 seconds on low-end machines.

Does anyone know how to get my default country to automatically become selected after the profile page loads?

Hey Sean
the reason eileen is asking you to update your forum profile with your civi and cms versions is so that we can easily see what civi version you are working on. i believe the behavior you are looking for is indeed the default behavior in civi 2.2 (you can go to the demo site and check it out; worked for me).

if you are not on 2.2, tell us which version you're on.

hmm, sorry, i was looking at demo site preview of a profile and it was selecting default country (or maybe it was cached in my browser). anyway, going to the live profile on demo and it is using same behavior as you describe.

i wonder if this is a bug.

i just looked at the standalone code for the profile i set on the demo site and in that code i see:
   <option value="1228" selected="selected">United States</option>

however, when i go to the profile itself (http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/profile?reset=1&id=1&gid=1)
the default country is not selected (tested in Safari 3 Mac and Firefox 2 Mac). Based on the standalone code, it seems this in fact should be the correct behavior. Searched around on jira issues and did not see a match for this if it is a bug.

will wait for a developer to weigh in on this before i submit it as a bug...

The behavior of the country field on the page lobo provided is exactly the behavior I'm looking for.
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/profile/create?reset=1&id=1&gid=1

...but I don't see what is different about my settings that makes the country field load without being set
http://crm.bikesnotbombs.org/civicrm/event/register?id=2&reset=1

Any ideas for what setting I might try changing?