How can I avoid Form Select first entry being blank?, Form Select first entry is blank Options

[Hopworks]

I'm not very good with the terminology and I apologize in advance for that. I'm fairly new at what I am doing and I apologize for that too.

For the most part, I've had some wonderful success mixing PHP, HTML, and Javascripting to get what I want to work. Now I'm just nit picking.

I'll be brief... I have a page that has a form select populated with data from a database. I click an entry in that listbox-looking thing and javascript shows a php file in a div where I edit text fields and even update the database with changes.

All works great but I can't seem to figure out how to eliminate the blank first entry in my form's select control. I'm sure it is something simple, but I have googled it for hours with no resolution.

I just want the list to be populated without a blank entry at the top. I can't figure out why it is there but again, I'm sure it is something I overlooked.

Here is a sample of what I am doing, without setup, so don't look at the code as something working on it's own.

CODE

<form name="vendor_select" >
      <select name="users" size="35" value="1" onChange="showDBdata(this.value)">
        <option value=""></option>
<?
    for($x=0;$x<$result_count;$x++){
        $row=mysql_fetch_row($result);
?>
        <option value="<? echo $row[0] ?>"><? echo $row[0] ?></option>
<? }
?>
    </select>
</form>

Any advice pointing me to further reading or possible solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hop

[Darin McGrew]

<option value=""></option>

You mean this blank first entry?

[Hopworks]

<option value=""></option>

You mean this blank first entry?

Yep that's it. I must have looked at that a 100 times. Stupid me. Thank you for pointing it out.