I am really surprised nobody mentioned using a <cfselect selected="valueToBeSelected" query="queryName" value="columnName" />
Chris Peterson -----Original Message----- From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 5:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Dynamically prepolate the select box Literally. http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-ColdFusion-Web-Application-Construction/dp/0 32151548X/ On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Bobby Hartsfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chapter 1: > > <option value="#Item_ID#"<cfif item_ID EQ selectedId> > selected="selected"</cfif>> > > ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. > Bobby Hartsfield > http://acoderslife.com > http://cf4em.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dominic Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 1:49 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Dynamically prepolate the select box > > Another option is the iif() function ('inline if'). So: > > <cfloop query="ItemQ"> > <option value="#Item_ID#" #iif(item_ID EQ selectedId, > DE('selected="selected"'), DE(''))#> > #Item# > </option> > </cfloop> > > Dominic > -- > Blog it up: http://fusion.dominicwatson.co.uk > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:305080 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

