HTML, XHTML & CSS

Chapter 14: Working with Forms
✓ By default, the browser displays only one option until the user clicks the
drop-down menu arrow to display the rest of the list. Use the size attribute
with the tag to specify how many options to show.
If you specify fewer than the total number of options, the browser
includes a scroll bar with the drop-down list.
Figure 14-10: A drop-down list.
You can specify that one of the options in the drop-down list be already
selected when the browser loads the page, just as you can specify a check
box or radio button to be checked. Simply add the selected attribute to
have a value of selected for the tag you want as the default. Use
this when one choice is very likely, but don’t worry — users can override
your default selection quickly and easily.
The following markup example
✓ Allows the user to choose more than one option from the list
✓ Displays two options
✓ Selects the third option in the list by default
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