The select element is used to create a drop- down menu or multiline menu. In s drop-down menu, a user can only select one option. In a multiline menu, a user can select more than one option.
Listed below are the most common attributes you can use for the select element:
- class - provides the class or classes of the select element. This attribute is used to identify the name of the style class or classes to be used for rendering.
- disable - sets the state of the select element to be disable in which it cannot be selected or controlled.
- id - provides a unique name for the select element.
- lang - provides the language in which the enclosed content is coded.
- multiple - sets the state of the select element to a multiline menu.
- name - provides a name for the select element.
- style - provides a cascading style sheet (CSS) properties to the select element.
- tabindex - sets the position of the tabbing order of the select element.
- title - provides a text title for the select element. Most web browser displays the value of the title as "tooltip".
Here's an example on how to use the select element:
<!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" />
<mate name="keywords" content="blog, web development" />
<title>the SELECT element</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
the SELECT element
</h1>
<form action="register.php" method="post" id="frmNew" name="frmNew">
<p>
<select name="selCountry" id="selCountry">
<option value="Canada">Canada</option>
<option value="Philippines">Philippines</option>
<option value="USA">USA</option>
</select>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
