Re: [galaxy-dev] Searching in Galaxy drop down lists

That makes sense, but I guess somewhere before the Javascipt runs the start value is being set to the first entry in the list.

Yes, I think this is the case; there is also an 'accept_default' attribute that can be added to select parameters.

I've tried adding value="" and value="?" to the <param type="select" ...> tag to no avail.

Hmm. For genome/dbkey selection, the first value is often '?'; for datatype selection, the first value is often ''. Hence, the reason for those two values being special.

Maybe I'm missing something. Should all browsers behave the same?

Yes, all browsers should behave the same, modulo some IE quirks. Can you provide the XML for your param and I can take a look? Thanks, J.