The selection will stick until you do a form submit. The most common
practice in PHP is to update the database with the value from the form or at
least save it in a session. After the update you can redisplay your form
after fetching the DB contents or getting the selection from the session
into a variable (say $choice) and modify the loop below in your form so that
the echo inside the loop is broken into the following;
foreach ($state_list as $key => $value) {
echo "<option value=\"$key\"";
if($key == $choice) echo " selected"; // now it's sticky
;-)
echo "> $value</option>\n";
}
When you fail to indicate which item in a select list is "selected" most
browsers will default to showing the first entry (effectively unsticking
your choice).
Good luck,
Warren Vail
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael S. Dunsavage [mailto:mikesd@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 6:32 PM
> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Trying to keep a dropdown selection sticky
>
> I have a form I want to keep sticky, but I can't figure out
> how. I got all the <INPUT>'s to be sticky....
>
> The select script
>
>
> <?php
> echo '<strong>State</strong><br>';
> echo '<select name="State">';
> foreach ($state_list as $key => $value) {
> echo "<option value=\"$key\"> $value</option>\n";
> }
> echo '</select>';
> echo '<br>';
>
>
>
> ?>
>
>
> so now how do I keep that sticky?
>
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> Michael S. Dunsavage
>
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