Idocs Guide to HTML: SELECT

Usage Recommendation
use it

NAME: name of this form element
MULTIPLE: allow more than one choice
SIZE: how many options to show
READONLY: don't let the user change the value of this field
DISABLED: don't let the user do anything with this field

LANGUAGE: scripting language to use
onChange: what to do when a new option is selected
TABINDEX: tab order
onFocus: script to run when this field gets the focus
onBlur: script to run when this field loses the focus

A lot of people come to this page looking for information on drop down menues. You may want to see the Drop Down Menu Tutorial.

this code	produces this
<SELECT NAME="pizzasize"> <OPTION VALUE="s">small <OPTION VALUE="m">medium <OPTION VALUE="l">large </SELECT>

Note that the text which appears is directly after each <OPTION ...> tag, not inside the tag. The value that is sent to the CGI, however, is given by <OPTION VALUE="...">.

By default only one option can be selected. To have a list which allows more than one option, use the MULTIPLE attribute. See MULTIPLE for more details about this type of list.

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