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Mohammad Areeb Siddiqui
Mohammad Areeb Siddiqui

Reputation: 10179

HTML - Selecting a default option in the <select> tag

I have a list of cities.

<select name="cities">
    <option value="nc">New city..</option>
    <option value="quetta">Quetta</option>
    <option value="karachi">Karachi</option>
    <option value="islamabad">Islamabad</option>
    <option value="khyber pukhtun khuan">Khyber Pukhtun Khuan</option>
    <option value="multan">Multan</option>
    <option value="murree">Murree</option>
    <option value="gwadar">Gwadar</option>
    <option value="gujranwala">Gujranwala</option>
    <option value="faisalabad">Faisalabad</option>
    <option value="peshawar">Peshawar</option>
</select>

And i have a database in which i have stored user's city. Now i am making a page in which the user will update his city and for that i want the user to see his city already selected when he opens up the page. In short, i want a option to be selected according to the value returned by the database. I am using php as the language

I have got one solution but not implemented it yet because its not effecient! Any easy and effecient way would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1159

Answers (5)

Supericy
Supericy

Reputation: 5896

One possible solution could be to change your code structure to something more along the lines of:

// hardcoded cities or perhaps loaded from elsewhere
$cities = [
    "nc"        => "New city...",
    "quetta"    => "Quetta",
    "karachi"   => "Karachi"
    // ...
];

// user's city fetched from the database
$userCity = "quetta";

echo '<select name="cities">';
foreach ($cities as $key => $value)
{
    echo '<option ' . ($userCity === $key ? 'selected' : '') . ' value="' . $key . '">' . $value . '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';

Upvotes: 0

Bhavin Rana
Bhavin Rana

Reputation: 1582

with JQuery 

$(function() {
    $("#gate").val('Gateway 2');
});

Working Demo

from here

Upvotes: -1

Tepken Vannkorn
Tepken Vannkorn

Reputation: 9713

//first you have a specific city of a user

$user_city = 'city-name';

//Then you have a list of all cities available (probably from the database,
// but I use array here as an example)

$cities = array('city1','city2','city3');

<select name="cities">
   <?php
       foreach ( $cities as $city ) {
           if ( $city == $user_city ) {
              echo "<option value='".$city."' selected>$city</option>";
           } else {
              echo "<option value='".$city."'>$city</option>";
           }
       }
   ?>
</select>

Upvotes: 4

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943567

Get your list of cities into an array instead of hard coded HTML.

Loop over the list and output the option element for each.

As you do so, compare to the value retrieved from the database. Add selected if they match.

Upvotes: 1

Nipun Jain
Nipun Jain

Reputation: 601

just check the value from database and add selected to that option by using javascript or php

 <option value="murree" selected >Murree</option>

Upvotes: 1

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