Forms - Lists & Menus

Lists are scrollable boxes from which a user can choose multiple items. This can be useful when there’s a long list of choices and you want to save space on your Web page. Using checkboxes for a large number of items is not very user friendly. Using a list allows you to contain the items within a small box and still give the user full access to all of the choices through a scroll bar. You can also choose to have any one of the items in your list as the selected item when a form is loaded into the user’s browser. To do this, add the the selected attribute to the option you want selected.

< select name=”cars” size=”4″>
<option value=”audi”>Audi</option>
<option value=”dodge”>Dodge</option>
<option value=”toyota” selected>Toyota</option>
<option value=”vw”>Volkswagen</option>
</select>

A menu or a drop-down menu, is a drop-down box from which a user can choose only one item. When an item from a drop-down box is selected, the box disappears while displaying your selection. Read more