While you're building your select box, you can use :
<cfoutput query="myquery">
<option value="#myquery.mycolumn#"
<cfif not comparenocase(myquery.mycolumn,selectedvalue)>
SELECTED</cfif>>#myquery.mycolumn2#</option>
</cfoutput>
if you want to use javascript after the fact:
document.myform.myselectbox.value="#jsstringformat(selectedvalue)#"
works at least in IE ... in some other browsers you may have to resort to
document.myform.myselectbox.selectedIndex =
#ListFind(valuelist(myquery.mycolumn),selectedvalue)#
If there's not an empty element at the top of your select box you'll need to
add -1 to the end of that line of javascript...
hth
Isaac Dealey
Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer
www.turnkey.to
954-776-0046
> yes, I sure do.
> and I can do it fine, snagging the one I want selected
> and putting it first in the list, no problem, but I just wanted
> to keep the same order.
> ..tony
> Tony Weeg
> Senior Web Developer
> Information System Design
> Navtrak, Inc.
> Fleet Management Solutions
> www.navtrak.net
> 410.548.2337
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tangorre, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 1:13 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: select box focus
> Tony,
> I assume that you have a query or a variable to hold the item you want
> selected correct?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:22 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: sot: select box focus
> hi there.
> ok, I have a page, that when a user returns to it, there
> is a select box, and that select box could have any number of
> options in it. without changing the order of the entries in it,
> I want to have the select box, show that entry in the veiwable
> area, not like 45 options down? make sense? it's a select box
> that people can see 10 options on, and make multiple selections.
> tony
> Tony Weeg
> Senior Web Developer
> Information System Design
> Navtrak, Inc.
> Fleet Management Solutions
> www.navtrak.net
> 410.548.2337
>
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