<SELECT> Tag and PHP

registered · Worker Joined: Feb 18, 2004 Posts: 244

This is as much a straight HTML question as it is a PHP question.

I'm trying to create a drop down selectable list. Here is a snipit from a piece of working code that I've created.

Code:

echo "<td align=\"center\"><nobr><SELECT NAME=\"name\">";


         


         $rights = $db->sql_query("SELECT fid from ".$prefix."_university_rights WHERE cid='$cid'");


         $total_rights = $db->sql_numrows($rights);


         if($total_rights !=0) {


            while (list($fid) = $db->sql_fetchrow($rights)) {


               $faculty = $db->sql_query("SELECT name from ".$prefix."_university_faculty WHERE fid='$fid'");


               while (list($name) = $db->sql_fetchrow($faculty)) {


                  if (get_magic_quotes_gpc())


                     $name = stripslashes($name);


                  echo "<option value=\"$cid\">$name</option>";


               }


            }


            echo "<option value=\"$cid\">-------------------------</option>";


         } else {


         echo "<option value=\"$cid\">"._UNIVERSITY_UNASSIGNED."</option>";


         echo "<option value=\"$cid\">-------------------------</option>";


         }


      echo "</select></nobr></td>";

I can't seem to find a way to have all my select drop down boxes the same size. Unless I use the little cheater trick you see here.

Where I have the line of dashes. Those dashes hold the select box out to a minimum size. Never letting it get any smaller.

How do you use the Select tag in PHP and at the same time force the box to be a minimum size no matter what data you plan to fill it with?

BTW, that snipit up above cycles through several times filling a table with rows of drop down select fields...

Thanks,
Darrell

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Try this and let me know if this works

Code:

<select NAME="foo" WIDTH="300" STYLE="width: 300px">


    <option>one


    <option>two


    <option>three


</select>

There is also a maxwidth CSS attribute that might need to come into play.

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:13 am

Yes!

It does work. The select box dosent shrink or grow depending on size. That's exactly what I was looking for.

Code:

<?php


echo "<select NAME=\"foo\" width=\"200\" style=\"width: 200px\" >"


   ."<option value=test>short</option>"


   ."<option value=test>longer</option>"


   ."<option value=test>longest</option>"


   ."<option value=test>this one is intentionally two long to fit</option></select>";


?>

I did look at the W3C Recommendation for select and option, but I did not see the width attribute. Sorry.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#control-name

Thanks,
Darrell

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:15 am

The width attribute is only for NN4.x, I believe. The CSS is all that you should probably need now.