HTML_Quickform select box question

RR_QQ

Does any one know how to have an item in the dropdown list selected by default?

$city_field = HTML_QuickForm::createElement('autocomplete', 'city', 'City', $cities);

$cities is an array of city names and I would like, say 'Los Angeles' selected by default - how to do it? Thanks! :evilgrin:

Shrike

From a glance at the PEAR manual there is a setValue() method for all HTML_Quickform derived objects. At a guess it will be something along the lines of

$city_field = HTML_QuickForm::createElement('autocomplete', 'city', 'City', $cities);
$city_field->setValue( 'some_default_value' );

devilsor

$selectListArray = array( 'windows'   => 'Windows',
          'linux'     => 'Linux', 
         'irix'      => 'Irix',
          'mac'       => 'Mac',      ); 

$form->addElement('select', 'Select', null, $selectListArray);	
  	$defaultValues['Select'] = array('irix');

$form->addElement('select', 'Select_multiple', null, $selectListArray,array('size' => 4));  	
$defaultValues['Select_multiple'] = array('irix');  	  	

$form->setDefaults($defaultValues);

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for more help look in :
php\PEAR\docs\HTML_QuickForm\docs\