Dropdown select box - Setting the default display value

[Liz Costelloe]

Hi,

I'm trying to provide a page where users can edit existing records from a database. I'm using a series of input & droplists to do this. Ideally I would like the page to open with each droplist displaying the values stored in the database & not just the first value in the list. Does anyone know the code that will do this for me??

Thanks

[Jeroen Wenting]

add the text 'selected="selected"' (without the single quotes) to the <option ... > elements you want to show up as defaults.

For example
[code]
<select id="s1">
<option value="1">One</option>
<option value="2" selected="selected">Two</option>
<option value="3">Three</option>
</select>
[code]

Will show the second option by default. If more than one has the parameter "selected" set, the last such will be defaulted.
[ June 04, 2004: Message edited by: Jeroen Wenting ]

[Bear Bibeault]

Moving to the HTML/Javascript forum.