need help with a form and selections please

[Justin_Diamond]

Hi there,

I need to validate my form that uses PHP to dynamically select an option.

I am using:

			<?
			for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($categories);$i++) {
			print "<option";
			if ($row['business_category']==$categories[$i])
			print " selected";
			print ">".$categories[$i]."</option>\n";
			}
			?>

but I need it to show in XHTML as, for example:

<option selected="selected" value="all">All</option>

How would I do this?

Thanks

[yelvington]

I'm puzzled. XHTML does not require that the "value" attribute be present, so your original code shouls be valid. Often validators complain about non-required code-bloating cruft.

At any rate, add

print "value=\"" . $categories[$i] . "\"";

before

print ">".$categories[$i]."</option>\n"

[Justin_Diamond]

Hmmm strange. Thanks for that though 🙂

I was getting this validation error:

the name and VI delimiter can be omitted from an
attribute specification only if SHORTTAG YES is specified