Re: Simple question about a drop down list

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As far as I know, with HTML, you can't have any text that is there before
anything is selected. If you want that, your first item has to be 'Please
select...' or something like that, and you just have to make sure your code
knows that is not an actual item in the list.

"Rik Brooks" <rbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm using the drop down list in a web app. I can set the items in the list
> with no problem. How do I set the text? That is to say, how do I set the
> part
> that the user sees before they drop down the list?
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