Setting The Value Of A Select Box

[iaresean]

I have a form at the moment with a select box, when the user hits the submit button the data goes through its checks, if the data is incorrect I must reload the form with all the values he entered still in it and display the apppropriate message of what was incorrect. Everything works fine except my select box. How do I reset the select box to the option he/she chose. I tried <select name=&quot;fruit&quot; value=&quot;$choice>[/red] but it doesn't do a thing.

Any ideas of what to do is greatly appreciated.

Sean.

 

[ChrisHunt]

You're South African then.

You need to end up with something like this in your (X)HTML:
[tt]
<select name=&quot;fruit&quot;>
<option>Apple</a>
<option selected=&quot;selected&quot;>Orange</a>
</select>
[/tt]
There's no value attribute in a <select>.

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[vrajasek]

First thing you need to do is send the present form values to the loading page.

Second thing is get the value of the selected option into a variable like $val=param('fruit');

then use condition for each of the options of selection of fruit whether to display it as a checked one or an unchecked one like
if ($val='Apple')
print &quot;<option selected=\&quot;selected\&quot;>Apple&quot;;
else
print &quot;<option> Apple&quot;;

I hope this should solve your problem.