re: Dropdown Menu Woes

Hi Roy, Not sure why that happens, but you could try:

      while(...) {
          ...
          print "<option>" . $color . "</option>";
          ...
      }

Hope this helps. Mikah At 07:27 PM 12/7/00, Roy W wrote:

Having trouble creating a drop-down menu using the following code: ....more code <FORM method="POST" action="formresult.php3"> Pick a color:<select size="1" name="colorselect"> <? ...more php code WHILE ($i < $number):

      $color = mysql_result($result,$i,"color");
      echo htmlentities("<option>$color</option>");
     /* also tried but no-go: PRINT "<option>$color</option>"; */
      $i++;

ENDWHILE; ?> ....more code The above puts the string: "$color" into the dropdown menu