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[softhead]

When I put in this code in my format file:

<select name="Equipment1" size="1">

[FMP-option: equipment]</select>

After it is processed, all that is left is:

<select name="Equipment1" size="1">

</select>

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Anita

[Keith M. Davie]

You have written:

<select name="Equipment1" size="1"> [FMP-option: equipment]</select>

Have you tried:

<select name="Equipment1" value="[FMP-option: equipment]" size="1"></select>

or:

<select name="Equipment1" value="[FMP-option: equipment]" size="1">[FMP-option: equipment]</select>

I haven't. But I hope this helps.

Peace

Keith M. Davie

[softhead]

I'm not too sure what I did...but I deleted it and typed it in again and it seems to work fine now! Computers...*sigh*.

Thanks for your help though!

Anita

[softhead]

Actually, I now have another question, how would I add a "other" field onto the select menu so that users can manually add in their own choices?

Thanks,

Anita

[chandra]

I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but you could try this:

code:

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<select name="Equipment1" size="1">

[FMP-option: equipment]

<option>Other

</select>

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I believe you would need create a new field in your database to hold this "Other" manually entered value since you can't input values into a <select>.

code:

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<input type="text" name="Other" value="">

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[This message has been edited by chandra (edited August 02, 2000).]