Question: I have a Channel Form set up which is working fine and inserting entries into a Channel with the default status.

Now there is a requirement to allow the status to be changed when creating the entry via the Channel Form but for the life of me I can't get it to work.

I have tried using the Channel Form {status} tags and also tried hardcoding the select drop down but no matter what I do the default status is applied.

Here's the EE tag version

```
<select id="status" name="status">
{statuses}
    <option value="{status}"{selected}>{status}</option>
{/statuses}
</select>

```

And here's the HTML

```
<select name="status">
    <option value="Pending">Pending</option>
    <option value="Approved">Approved</option>
    <option value="Declined">Declined</option>
</select>

```

The only thing I can think of is that I'm trying to set a custom status and not the normal "open" or "closed". Even using standard "open" and "closed" (via the EE generated drop down) doesn't work.

The site is using EE 2.9.0.

Has anyone run into this problem?

Answer: 
I've encountered exactly the same problem with 2.10.1. No matter what I set the status to, it always writes as 'Open'. I'm sure I've got the proper group assigned and title-casing for 'Pending'... I can only conclude it's a system bug.
i assume from your hard coded example you've set up the Status group with those entries? status is validated against the status group...

As Marc Miller illudes to, have you linked your custom status group to the channel you are posting in (Admin -> Channel Administration -> Channels -> Edit Group Assignments (on the desired channel))?

Lastly, using your hard coded example, haveyou double checked the casing on your statuses? They are case sensative! Worse still when you edit statuses in the CP Open and Closed are displayed *proper case*, however the value you need to submit in *lowercase* (notice this in lincolnpixel's example above?).

If you create a new status the value submitted should match the case you typed in on custom statuses editing screen, if its the default Open and Closed, these values must be lowercase. for the ultimate check look at your `exp_statuses` table.