diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helpers/html.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helpers/html.test.php
index 89eed2ea8..d5ffba104 100644
--- a/cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helpers/html.test.php
+++ b/cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helpers/html.test.php
@@ -46,14 +46,23 @@ class HtmlHelperTest extends UnitTestCase {
 		$view = new View(new TheHtmlTestController());
 		ClassRegistry::addObject('view', $view);
 	}
-	
-	/* commented out because selectTag is deprecated
+
 	function testSelectTag() {
-		$result = $this->html->selectTag('Model/field', array());
-		$expected = '<select name="data[Model][field]"  id="ModelField">'."\n".'<option value="" >&nbsp;</option>'."\n".'</select>';
-		$this->assertEqual($result, $expected, "Badness!  Expected '{$expected}', got '{$result}'.");
-	}*/
-	
+		@$result = $this->html->selectTag('Model/field', array());
+		$this->assertPattern('/^<select [^<>]+>\n<option [^<>]+>/', $result);
+		$this->assertPattern('/<option value="" ><\/option>/', $result);
+		$this->assertPattern('/<\/select>$/', $result);
+		$this->assertPattern('/<select[^<>]+name="data\[Model\]\[field\]"[^<>]*>/', $result);
+		$this->assertPattern('/<select[^<>]+id="ModelField"[^<>]*>/', $result);
+
+		$this->html->data = array('Model' => array('field' => 'value'));
+		@$result = $this->html->selectTag('Model/field', array('value' => 'good', 'other' => 'bad'));
+		$this->assertPattern('/option value=""/', $result);
+		$this->assertPattern('/option value="value"/', $result);
+		$this->assertPattern('/option value="other"/', $result);
+		debug($result, true);
+	}
+
 	function tearDown() {
 		unset($this->html);
 	}