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Daniel Moore
Daniel Moore

Reputation: 23

Dropdown predefined default value

Im using a drop down menu in a contact form, 

option 1 : Worldwide Cover
option 2 : European Cover

But that form is inserted into a DB, which is then read by ?id,

is there any way to have a value for each dropdown, for example if they select "option one" it will input the terms for worldwide cover to the DB,

if they select option 2 it will input terms for europe into the DB

Upvotes: 1

Views: 387

Answers (2)

srini
srini

Reputation: 884

          <?php
             $option_value=$_POST['select_value'];
            echo  $option_value;
          ?>
  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org  /TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
     <title>Entry_form</title>

     </head>
      <body>
       <form action="" method="post" >
       <select name="select_value">

        <option value="Worldwide Cover">option1</option>
        <option value="European Cover">option2</option>
        </select>
         <input type="submit" value="submit" />
          </form>
         </body>
       </html>

Upvotes: 0

Simon Forsberg
Simon Forsberg

Reputation: 13331

Like this:

<option value="your_value">Some label</option>
<option value="another_value" selected>Another label</option>

The selected attribute is to make it selected by default (when the form is first shown to the user), which seems to be what you are asking about in the question title.

Upvotes: 2

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