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anon1217

Jun 5 2009, 11:48 AM

Hello I'm trying to setup a dropdown list on my site and I am wondering how to get the submit button to use the value for the options in the list.
This is what I'm trying to work with...

CODE

<select name="dropdown box">
  <option>Select an option</option>
  <option value="www.google.com">selection 1</option>
  <option value="www.google.com">selection 2</option>
</select>
    <input name="button" type="submit" value="Submit" />

any help would be much appreciated

pandy

Jun 5 2009, 12:48 PM

Where are the form tags? A submit button just submits the form. To what it's submitted is specified in the action attribute in the FORM tag. That's where the action is.

See http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/forms.html#form-howto (and forward). Are you trying to create some kind of navigation with this? In that case also see http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/forms.html#form-navmenu .

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