10.4. Select boxes and their applications

10.4.1. The DOM interface for select box

The next DOM interface that we want to talk about is the select box interface. It can be used to access a select box. Select box, sometimes called combo box, is defined in HTML/XHTML specifications as an independent element. To generate a select box, the <select> element is used. A typical example to generate a select box is shown in ex10-08.htm.

Example. ex10–08.htm – Generating A Select Box
 1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859–1"?> 2: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 3: "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 4: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 5: <style> 6: .selSt{width:280px;height:35px;background:#aaffaa; ...

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