<p> Sorry, geeky post ahead, but I&#39;ve been having one of those headache-y times with a piece of code I&#39;ve started to play with, and in Googling, I found enough others who were having the same problems to want to have a concise note of a (possibly hacky) solution.</p> <p> If you are using dojo, specifically a dijit.FilteringSelect, and are frustrated that, upon selecting an item, your FilteringSelect tries to do a reverse lookup on your label (which may or may not have an easily reversible relationship to the value it represents), then let me point you to <a href="http://dojotoolkit.org/2007/12/12/dojo-grid-1-1#comment-10358">the genesis of a solution</a> (mostly to establish credit, since I did have to refine what was presented there for dojo 1.2)</p>