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Jan 13.2006

Hello all, I have another question related to a hurry-up job.

How can you set a drop down menu to a default selection? Here’s the specific menu code, and its in a form:

<td width=”116″ align=”right” class=”style14″>Select Your State </td>
<td width=”320″ align=”left”><select name=”selectstate” id=”selectstate”>
<option value=”Alabama”>Alabama</option>
<option value=”Florida”>Florida</option>
<option value=”Georgia”>Georgia</option>
<option value=”North Carolina”>North Carolina</option>
<option value=”South Carolina”>South Carolina</option>
</select>
</td>

What do I need to add to make the selection drop down menu default to one state or another, or is there a link I can go to to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance ?

Cheers,
Garth P.

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@FangJan 13.2006 — &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
window.onload=function() {
document.getElementById('selectstate').options[[COLOR=Green]anIndex[/COLOR]].selected=true;
}
&lt;/script&gt;
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@GarthPauthorJan 14.2006 — Thanks Fang. Now where in the code snippet I provided should I put that code that you gave? Or do I put it outside my snippet? Could you elaborate a little bit please?

Thanks. ?

Cheers,

Garth P.
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@felgallJan 14.2006 — Why not just hard code it in the HTML

<td width="116" align="right" class="style14">Select Your State </td>

<td width="320" align="left"><select name="selectstate" id="selectstate">

<option value="Alabama">Alabama</option>

<option value="Florida">Florida</option>

<option value="Georgia" [b]selected[/b]>Georgia</option>

<option value="North Carolina">North Carolina</option>

<option value="South Carolina">South Carolina</option>

</select>

</td>
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