Posted by Brad on 05/24/07 12:10

On May 22, 3:18 pm, SterLo <sterling.hamil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had any good methods for this problem.
>
> I have a drop down box that is generated:
>
> Status: <select name="tt_ticketstatusid" class="swiftselect"><option
> value="1" style="" selected="selected">Open</option>
> <option value="2" style="">On Hold</option>
> <option value="3" style="">Closed</option>
> <option value="5" style="">Awaiting Customer Response</option>
> <option value="4" style="">Potentially Resolved</option>
> <option value="6" style="color: teal;">On Hold - potential future
> release</option>
> <option value="7" style="">Potentially Resolved, Next Release</option>
> <option value="9" style="">Fixed - Next Release</option>
> <option value="10" style="">Internal Change</option>
> </select>
>
> The website I am doing this with is pretty complicated and has AJAX
> and PHP OOP running everywhere.
>
> I need to have the drop down box automatically select the value 5 - I
> have already located the event where I want this to take place - but I
> am not sure how I would go about making a drop down box select an
> option after it has been written to the page.
>
> Maybe with Javascript?

Why do this in Javascript? All that is required for the default value
of 5 to be selected is to add the phrase: selected="selected" to the
<option> tag. You can do this with straight HTML, or if the dropdown
is created via PHP, add it to the function that creates the dropdown.

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