Input value does not print completely variable with space

Question

good morning. I have a problem here, when I will update a page with data coming from the database the select option shows the data correctly but the captured values are not correct, an example, if it is of cities comes in value only the first name of the city while in the display of the name comes complete, so when I do the update only records the first name, because this dividing and creating fields. what I need is that on the update page the select option comes with the data that is in the database.

    <select class="form-control" name="cidade">
  <option value="">-- Selecionar --</option>
  <?php
$curc4 = $pdo->query("SELECT * FROM comarca ORDER BY comarc asc");
while ($lic4 = $curc4->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
echo "<option value=".$lic4['comarc']." ".($cidade == $lic4['comarc'] ? "selected":"")." >".$lic4['comarc']."</option>";
} ?> 
</select>

//solução encontrada

<select class="form-control" name="cidag">
                        <option value="">-- Selecionar --</option>
                        <?php
                        $curc4 = $pdo->query("SELECT * FROM comarca ORDER BY comarc asc");
                        while ($lic4 = $curc4->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
                          $comarc=$lic4['comarc'];
                          if($cidag == $comarc){
                            $selected = "selected";
                          } else {
                            $selected = " ";
                          }
                           ?>
                    <option value="<?php echo $comarc;?>" <?php echo $selected;?> ><?php echo $comarc;?></option>
                       <?php } ?> 
                      </select>

console shows this way

<option value="ANGRA" dos="" reis="">ANGRA DOS REIS</option>

I thank you for your help

Answer 1

Put options values in quotes value=".... "which will work

If you prefer it can be in simple quotes value=' .... '

echo "<option value=\"".$lic4['comarc']."\" ".($cidade == $lic4['comarc'] ? "selected":"").">".$lic4['comarc']."</option>";

The browser interprets the value of the property value WITH SPACE as two properties. The solution is to hug with quotes.

OBS

In firefox, I noticed the attribute "selected" doesn’t work unless you put the select within a form, where the form has an attribute name.

To avoid any problem use selected='selected'

echo "<select class=\"form-control\" name=\"cidag\">
     <option value=\"\">-- Selecionar --</option>";
                    
        $curc4 = $pdo->query("SELECT * FROM comarca ORDER BY comarc asc");
        while ($lic4 = $curc4->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
                      
      /*######### com aspas simples ficaria assim ###########################################################################
       echo "<option value='".$lic4['comarc'']."' ".($cidag == $lic4['comarc''] ? "selected='selected'":"").">".$lic4['comarc'']."</option>";
      ###################################################################### */
                      
       echo "<option value=\"".$lic4['comarc'']."\" ".($cidag == $lic4['comarc''] ? "selected='selected'":"").">".$lic4['comarc'']."</option>";
       }
       echo "</select>";