HTML Select/Option Question

cyronuts

Hi,

Trying to figure out how to return the data from an option field so that it is highlighted to the user in a drop down along with the other default choices:

<TR>
<TD WIDTH="150"><FONT FACE="VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA" SIZE="1" COLOR="000000">Site Owner Email:</FONT></TD>
<TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="owner_email" VALUE="<?PHP echo $row["owner_email"]; ?>"></TD>

<TD WIDTH="150"><FONT FACE="VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA" SIZE="1" COLOR="000000">Send Email to Site Owner Email:</FONT></TD>
<TD>
<SELECT NAME="owner_email_flag">
<OPTION VALUE="Y" SELECTED>Yes</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="N">No</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="M">Maybe</OPTION>
</SELECT></TD>
</TR>

I get the owner_email to return correctly and update correctly, but a little lost on the select/option value.

Thanks!

bladx

Question: Can you have a <select></select> option item be highlighted? I have never seen it done.

rinjani

You can use CSS to highlight an option value but onlu in IE 5.5 (maybe earlier versions as well)

<option name='my_name' style="color:red">OPTION VALUE</option>

Julian_Pedley

I am not sure quite what you want ,does this do it? There are neater ways with lists and loops I guess...

<TD WIDTH="150"><FONT FACE="VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA" SIZE="1" COLOR="000000">Send Email to Site Owner Email:</FONT></TD>
<TD>
<?php
$owner_email_flag="N";
switch ($owner_email_flag) { //or whatever
case "Y": $y="SELECTED"; break;
case "N": $n="SELECTED";break;
case "M": $m="SELECTED";break;

}
?>

<SELECT NAME="owner_email_flag">
<OPTION VALUE="Y" <?=$y?>>Yes</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="N" <?=$n?>>No</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="M" <?=$m?>>Maybe</OPTION>
</SELECT></TD>
</TR>

Originally posted by cyronuts
Hi,

Thanks!