Blank entry in combo box

[Syerston]

Hello everybody

Is there an easy way to ensure when the page loads any combo boxes populated from recordsets appear as blank entries until the user clicks the arrow.

John

 

[Bullschmidt]

Perhaps have code to add an extra blank option to the list box before you loop through the records to fill the rest of it.
<option value=&quot;&quot;></option>

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[Syerston]

Yea
I had thought of that too but I thought there might be a better way.

Thanks anyway

John

 

[Bullschmidt]

John,

Yes, this looks a little clunky, I know.

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J. Paul Schmidt

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[rtshort]

Why not just put, as the first option, &quot;Select Option&quot; or something like that.

I use DTC's in Visual Interdev using the &quot;AddItem&quot; method and they always come up blank until clicked on.

Rob
Just my $.02.

 

[DreXor]

only way to make an empty drop down selection is to use the <option></option> otherwise there is no 'blank' value inthe box for the box to be empty

i guess you could default diable all of the boxes, that way nothing appears, and when the page loads to an onload and undisable them all but that's messy and alot more code than adding one line to each select

 

[Tarwn]

You could create a javascript array to hold the options value and text, then when the user clicks the appropriate place call a function to add the options to the drop down based on the contents of that array. Similar to how you link several dropdowns together, but with only a single dropdown and a 1-dimension array.

-Tarwn

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