Re: Option Value
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:19:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Option Value | ||
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On Fri, February 23, 2007 9:10 am, Dan Shirah wrote:
> On my form I have several drop down menus. They all work and display
> the
> corrent values. However, I would like the initial display of the form
> to
> show each dropdown as blank.
[snip]
> Any suggestions on how to make my initial display of the field blank
> without
> having to add a blank row to my table?
Just hard-code a blank OPTION in the HTML after the SELECT, but before
the PHP to dump out the other options:
<SELECT NAME="whatever">
<OPTION VALUE="">-- Select Choice --</OPTION>
<?php /* your posted code goes here */ ?>
</SELECT>
Presentation Purists will claim this is wrong, I suspect, since it
hard-codes the one special value for "nothing selected" but there it
is.
I personally have less trouble with this method than the other
half-dozen I tried over the years.
YMMV
IANAL
NAIAA
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