[FX.php List] Dynamic Value Lists

[Andy Gaunt]

Kevin –

 

Your rant is well voiced. I use the options in my situations as you with a
please select/specify/choose to avoid having invalid HTML code.

 

I was just responding to Peter’s request. Maybe a “ ” would be better
suited in the option tag to give a valid option. The value itself can of
course be empty (or even put in “The user did not make a choice” as the
value)

 

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Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 7:05 PM
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On 22/10/05 2:32 AM, "Peter Bates" <p.bates at sjcpl.org> wrote:

Cool!

Thanks Andy

On Oct 21, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Andy Gaunt wrote:

   
Peter 
 
Add an option with a blank value and  the selected tag above your foreach
 
<select name="Title">
            <option value=”” selected></option>
            <?
    foreach($listResult['valueLists']['Title'] as $key=>$value) {
    ?>
            <option value="<?php echo $value; ?>"><?php echo $value;
?></option>
            <?
    }
    ?>
          </select>
 

Apologies for sounding like a broken record, but as a web standards advocate
I feel obliged to let you know that an empty option element will invalidate
your HTML; you’re better off, if your circumstance allows, using placeholder
text (something like “Please Select” for example). This will still work with
Andy’s solution, and is better for accessibility and usability reasons, as
well as being valid per spec.

(It constantly amazes me that people can learn to do fabulous, difficult and
technical things with tools like PHP, FM, XSLT etc, that require exacting
syntax and a considered approach, but still churn out tag soup when it comes
to the HTML.)

Sorry, off-topic rant over! 

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