Drop down lists
Hi, I'm trying to add a drop down link list to a table in an xhtml 1.0 Strict doctype. I need it to be as simple as possible as there are about 90 rows to the table and each row requires a drop down list in one of the columns.
I've tried using the following code in the correct rows tags:
1
2
3 text1
4 text2
5 text3
6
7
It works in practice but does not validate, producing the following 2 errors:
1. Line 1: required attribute "action" not specified.
2. Line 2: document type does not allow element "select" here; missing one of "p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "div", "pre", "address", "fieldset", "ins", "del" start-tag.
Any ideas what the problem is or if there's a better way of doing this? I guess this is just not in an xhtml fecognised format but am not sure.
Thanks in advance
aka Rohan posted this at 08:57 — 30th November 2006.
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It's ok i've sorted it now. I just changed the Doc Type to xhtml Transitional and added a black 'action' attribute to the tag.
JeevesBond posted this at 09:25 — 30th November 2006.
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Sorry I didn't see this earlier, but you can change your DOCTYPE back to strict, and change your code to read:
<form action="whatever.html"><fieldset>
<select>
<option value="link 1">text1</option>
<option value="link 2">text2</option>
<option value="link 3">text3</option>
</select>
</fieldset>
</form>
It's as simple as that dude. You might as well just put the current page into the form action, some poor browser might get confused otherwise. Not sure if you need a method="post" in there too to validate?
The fieldset tag is a way of grouping a bunch of form elements, you can get rid of the border it creates using 'border' in CSS.
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aka Rohan posted this at 12:15 — 30th November 2006.
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Ah cracking, nice one dude, problem solved. All validating fine in strict without the method="post". Thanks alot.
Neutron2k posted this at 09:49 — 7th December 2006.
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you can leave the action tag blank. It will still validate just as long as it exists.
Renegade posted this at 19:16 — 7th December 2006.
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And for those who need a remind, if the action field is blank (action=""), then it just refers back to the page the data was sent from.
andy206uk posted this at 21:24 — 10th December 2006.
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True... but it's bad form. Really you should be explicit and specify the page you want it to refer to just in case...
Andy
Neutron2k posted this at 15:34 — 8th December 2006.
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Good call. I should of put that
Renegade posted this at 02:03 — 11th December 2006.
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Yes, absolutely, but, just thought I'd include it as a bit of an FYI. Have quite a few people ask me in the past
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