select form item - can there be categories?

[emilybartholomew]

Hi-

I was wondering if there's a way to break a select item down into categories, like this:

Video
TV
VCR
Home Video Theater
Audio
CD player
Tape Player
.
.
.

It doesn't really matter if the category values are selectable or not.

Thanks-

 

[Glowball]

Sure, just put spaces in your options:

<select name=&quot;type&quot; size=1>
<option value=&quot;Video&quot;>Video</option>
<option value=&quot;Video|TV&quot;>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TV</option>
<option value=&quot;Video|VCR&quot;>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;VCR</option>
<option value=&quot;Video|Home Video Theater&quot;>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Home Video Theater</option>
<option value=&quot;Audio&quot;>Audio</option>
<option value=&quot;Audio|CD Player&quot;>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CD Player</option>
<option value=&quot;Audio|Tape Player&quot;>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tape Player</option>
</select>

I put in things like &quot;Video|TV&quot; so you could break the value up in your form processing script so you would know the category and subcategory. Hope that helps!

 

[Glowball]

Okay, I put in ASCII spaces, like

[ampersand]nbsp[semi-colon]

But they didn't show up! Just put in a few of those before your text between the option tags.

 

[Boomerang]

Maybe a minus-sign will help to see more difference?

<option value=&quot;Video|TV&quot;>&amp;nbsp;[red]-[/red]&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;TV</option>

Erik

 

[emilybartholomew]

Of course! Thanks a lot.