Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance.  I am working on a web 
form that allows the user to select a month from a dropdownlist (i.e. 
January, February, etc.).  I want to set the initial value of the 
DropdownList to the current month.  How do I do this?  Since I have 
already coded in all of the months, will the selected item appear twice?  
I ahve also done something similar for the year, but programatically start 
with the current year minus 5 to current year plus 10, using 
add.listitem.  Again, what is the easiest way to do this?  any help would 
be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

In order to set the selected option on a <SELECT> item, you need to:

      <SELECT ... >
      <% If Month(Date) = "January" then %>
            <OPTION VALUE="January" SELECTED>January</OPTION>
      <% Else %>
            <OPTION VALUE="January">January</OPTION>
      <% End if %>
      ...
      </SELECT>

This should do it.  If you are looping, do the same thing substituting your
loop variables.

Kyle B. Willman
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance.  I am working on a web
form that allows the user to select a month from a dropdownlist (i.e.
January, February, etc.).  I want to set the initial value of the
DropdownList to the current month.  How do I do this?  Since I have
already coded in all of the months, will the selected item appear twice?
I ahve also done something similar for the year, but programatically start
with the current year minus 5 to current year plus 10, using
add.listitem.  Again, what is the easiest way to do this?  any help would
be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

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