More hate for IE

[jjqualls]

I am a rookie at php so my code is not real sophisticated and I have run into a problem. The page works great on mozilla firefox but not on internet explorer. There should be 2 drop down boxes to refine the choices and a submit button, both boxes are viewable on MF, but IE only shows the first drop down box then just outputs the contents of the second drop down box in normal text. The code that should pertain to this is as follows

<form method="post" action="recipe_proc.php">
<?php
$h=0; //counter for category
$i=0; //counter for submitter
echo "<select name = category>
<option value = *>Search by Category</option>";

while ($h < $numcategory) {

$category=mysql_result($categoryresult,$h,"category");

echo "<option value = '$category'>$category</option>";
$h++;
};

echo "<select name = user>
<option value = *>Search by Submitter</option>";

while ($i < $numuser) {


$user=mysql_result($userresult,$i,"submitted");

echo "<option value = '$user'>$user</option>";
$i++;
};

?>
<input type="submit" value = "Search Recipes" />

</form>

Thanks for any help!

[NogDog]

First, do a "view source" on the browser and look for any odd stuff being output, such as PHP error messages that might be messing up the HTML mark-up. Then run the page through the HTML validator and fix any incorrect mark-up -- the reason being that if your HTML is invalid, browsers have to either guess what you meant, or give up and ignore it, so first make sure it's not your mark-up before you start blaming the browser.

(The above is based on experience, not on any detailed review of your code/mark-up.)

[Pikachu2000]

Nowhere in that code do you close either of the <select> fields. I'd venture a guess that therein lies the problem.

[toxic_brain]

<select name = category

could change to

<select name ="category"