Re: Retaining listbox selections

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@3ft9.com> wrote: > On 20 Dec 2013, at 23:03, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a listbox and when the user selects items they are highlighted. Then >> I process the form and when I generate the next web page (which has the >> listbox) I want the selected items still to be highlighted. Can I do this >> from PHP when I generate the listbox or must that be done client side from >> javascript? > > This is pretty basic HTML. Simply add the attribute selected="selected" to the option > tag you want to be selected. You could do it in Javascript, but since you already have PHP > generating the form you might as well do it there. Thanks.