Hi All,

I created a form(userInput.asp) where users can select from a drop-down menu. The values in the menu are:

<select name="sport">
    <option value="1">Baseball</option>
    <option value="2">Basketball</option>
    <option value="3">Tennis</option>
</select>

Let say a user selected basketball, and submitted the form. The data go into a database.

Here is what I want to do. Search(EditUserInput.asp) for this user, and be able to see his selection in a dropdown menu. Here is the key, I want his selection as the "selected default."

In other words, after I searched for this person and view his record, there is a dropdown menu with three selections(Baseball, Basketball, Tennis), but with "Basketball" hightlighted. Make sense?

Thank you for your help.

Leon

You can make the items as selected by checking in the if condition and make it as selected.
if(strOptionValue =="Baseball")
   <option value="1" selected>Baseball</option>
end if

Hi,

Thanks for the advise, but I am afraid my problem is more difficult than that. You see, I have a dropdown list of 20 items(basketball, tennis, football, hocky, etc..). There will be pages of code if I do an "If" statement that way. Is there an easier way?

Thanks.

Leon

Hi,

Nevermind about my question. I have figured it out. Thanks again!

Leon

If you are hardcoding the values in the dropdownlist then you have to do 20 ifs.
  Populate the values for the dropdownlist from the database and if the submitted value matches the dropdownlist value from the database make the option as selected else not selected.