Manual Entry/Input State field being populated with a space

[yaseent]

Hi,

I'm having a hard time figuring this out.

I have the "State - Always display as pulldown?" set to true.

I also use a placeholder="May Not Be Left Empty" on input text fields to give the customer a clearer idea of which fields may not be left empty.

The problem is, when the pulldown is active, and a customer chooses a country that does not have any states defined, it shows the manual input text field, but it adds a space to it. The space eliminates the placeholder text being shown, because the space counts as a character.

I tested out a clean install, and can confirm that the space is not something with any custom code I've coded in - it seems something somewhere in the standard 1.5.4 files is adding this space when the pulldown feature is set to true. When the pulldown feature is set to untrue, the space doesn't show up.

I'm so confused, any help please...

[yaseent]

Okay...sorry..found the problem.

in includes/modules/create_account.php around line 445 you'll find this:
$state = ($flag_show_pulldown_states) ? ($state == '' ? ' ' : $state) : $zone_name;

remove the   so that it looks like this:

$state = ($flag_show_pulldown_states) ? ($state == '' ? '' : $state) : $zone_name;

Perhaps there's a reason for the space? Any advice?