Name
<OPTION> — NN all IE all HTML all
Synopsis
<OPTION>...</OPTION>
End Tag: Optional
The OPTION
element defines an item that appears
in a SELECT
element listing, whether the listing
is in a pop-up menu or scrolling list. OPTION
elements associated with a SELECT
element must be
nested within the start and end tags of the SELECT
element.
SELECT
elements supply name/value pairs when the
element is submitted as part of a FORM
element.
Typically, the NAME
attribute of the
SELECT
element and the VALUE
attribute of the selected option are submitted as the name/value
pair. Therefore, it is important to assign a meaningful value to the
VALUE
attribute of each OPTION
element in a select list. You can use the VALUE
attribute to disguise user-unfriendly (but server-friendly) values
from the user, while presenting a user-friendly entry that appears in
the select list. Content for the human-readable entry of a select
list is entered after the OPTION
element’s
start tag. The end tag is optional because the entry is delimited
either by the next OPTION
element start tag or the
SELECT
element’s end tag. See also the
OPTGROUP
attribute for possible future grouping of
OPTION
elements into hierarchical menu groupings.
Example
<SELECT NAME="chapters"> <OPTION VALUE="1">Chapter 1 <OPTION VALUE="2">Chapter 2 <OPTION VALUE="3">Chapter 3 <OPTION VALUE="4">Chapter 4 </SELECT>
Object Model Reference
- NN
[window.]document.formName.selectName.optionName
[window.]document.forms[i].elements[i].optionName
- IE
[window.]document. ...
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