Tutorials - HTML - Forms - Select

The <select> element is used to create drop down lists, and each item of the list is an <option> element. While they can be confusing (and long) at first, the select element is actually one of the most simple input elements, as there is very little variation: almost all the select elements you create will follow the same structure:

<select name="codelanguage">
   <option value="html">HTML</option>
   <option value="php">PHP</option>
   <option value="css">CSS</option>
   <option value="java">JAVA</option>
</select>

And that really is just about all there is to the select element; you can use selected="yes" to preselect an element, and can use the size="" attribute to have a selection in a list rather than a drop-down.

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