How is your option list created? Did you pull the names and values from a database? Or is the list hard-coded?
----- Original Message ----- From: its me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:39 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] selected problem i have the file: edit_profile.php in it i have a form field like this: <select name="location"> <OPTION selected value="">Choose City</OPTION> <OPTION value=10-Ramadan>10-Ramadan</OPTION> <OPTION value="15 May">15 May</OPTION> <OPTION value=6-October>6-October</OPTION> <OPTION value="Abou Redes">Abou Redes</OPTION> <OPTION value=Abou-Zabal>Abou-Zabal</OPTION> <OPTION value="Al Arish">Al Arish</OPTION> <OPTION value="Al Mahala">Al Mahala</OPTION> <OPTION value="Al Tour">Al Tour</OPTION> <OPTION value=Al-Natroun>Al-Natroun</OPTION> <OPTION value=Alexandria>Alexandria</OPTION> <OPTION value=Asuit>Asuit</OPTION> <OPTION value=Aswan>Aswan</OPTION> <OPTION value=Bader>Bader</OPTION> <OPTION value=Bani-Sweif>Bani-Sweif</OPTION> <OPTION value=Belbis>Belbis</OPTION> <OPTION value="Berkeit sabb">Berkeit sabb</OPTION> <OPTION value=Cairo>Cairo</OPTION> <OPTION value=Dahab>Dahab</OPTION> <OPTION value=Damanhour>Damanhour</OPTION> <OPTION value=Disouk>Disouk</OPTION> <OPTION value=Dumiat>Dumiat</OPTION> <OPTION value="Ein Soukhna">Ein Soukhna</OPTION> <OPTION value="El- Maniea">El- Maniea</OPTION> <OPTION value=Fayed>Fayed</OPTION> <OPTION value=Fayoum>Fayoum</OPTION> <OPTION value="High Dam">High Dam</OPTION> <OPTION value=Hurghada>Hurghada</OPTION> <OPTION value=Inshas>Inshas</OPTION> <OPTION value=Ismaelia>Ismaelia</OPTION> <OPTION value="Kafr Al Shiek">Kafr Al Shiek</OPTION> <OPTION value=Katamia>Katamia</OPTION> <OPTION value=Luxor>Luxor</OPTION> <OPTION value=Mansoura>Mansoura</OPTION> <OPTION value=Marabella>Marabella</OPTION> <OPTION value=Maraquia>Maraquia</OPTION> <OPTION value="Marsa matrouh">Marsa matrouh</OPTION> <OPTION value="Met Ghamr">Met Ghamr</OPTION> <OPTION value=Monofia>Monofia</OPTION> <OPTION value=Moustorod>Moustorod</OPTION> <OPTION value=Nubieh>Nubieh</OPTION> <OPTION value="Oubour City">Oubour City</OPTION> <OPTION value="Port Sayed">Port Sayed</OPTION> <OPTION value="Qanater El Khiraya ">Qanater El Khiraya</OPTION> <OPTION value=Qliub>Qliub</OPTION> <OPTION value=Quana>Quana</OPTION> <OPTION value=Quesna>Quesna</OPTION> <OPTION value=Rafah>Rafah</OPTION> <OPTION value="Ras Sidr">Ras Sidr</OPTION> <OPTION value="Sadat City">Sadat City</OPTION> <OPTION value=Saqara>Saqara</OPTION> <OPTION value="Sedi Krier">Sedi Krier</OPTION> <OPTION value="Sharm el Shiek">Sharm el Shiek</OPTION> <OPTION value="Shebin Al Koum">Shebin Al Koum</OPTION> <OPTION value=Suhag>Suhag</OPTION> <OPTION value=Suiez>Suiez</OPTION> <OPTION value=Taba>Taba</OPTION> <OPTION value=Tanta>Tanta</OPTION> <OPTION value=Tebin>Tebin</OPTION> <OPTION value=Zafrana>Zafrana</OPTION> <OPTION value=Zagazik>Zagazik</OPTION> </select> as you can see there is many options:) and i got from my database: $location="Alexandria" so i wanted to appear selected,how can i do this?? Rehab M.Shouman ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Express yourself with a super cool email address from BigMailBox.com. Hundreds of choices. It's free! http://www.bigmailbox.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php