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What is HTML form selected?

An HTML form selectet is used to collect user input from a drop-down list. The user input is most often sent to a server for processing.

<select> tag is used to create a drop-down list .

<select> tag is most used in a form, to collect user data input.

The <option> element inside the <select> tag define the options in the drop-down list.

Always add <label> element for best accessibility practices!

Syntax:

<form action="your link action">
<label> your keyword </label>
<select name="value">
.......
</select>
</form>

The select attribute appears between our opening" <form>" tag and "</form>" without quotes.

Example of Form Select option

Browser Support HTML form action

Element	Chrome	IE	Firefox	Opera	Safari
Form Select option	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

HTML form select option

How do you create a form select action?
The <select> HTML element represents a control that provides a menu of options.

We shows a typical example form with <select> usage and we associate an id attribute
to enable it to be connected with a <label> for accessibility purposes.
Then a name attribute to represent the name of the associated data point submitted to the server.

For a better understanding we present an example:

Example (this is HTML - PHP editor, change text on this window)

<!DOCTYPE html>

  <html>

  <body>
<h1>The select option element</h1>
<form action="your action URL page">

  <label for="towna">Choose a town:</label>

  <select name="towns" id="towns">

  <option value="volvo">Paris</option>

  <option value="saab">Madrid</option>

  <option value="opel">New York</option>

  <option value="audi">Tokyo</option>

  </select> <br><br>

  <input type="submit" value="Submit">

  </form>
<p>Select your town and then click the "Submit" button and the form-data will be sent to a page on the 

  server.</p>
</body>

  </html>

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HTML form select multiple items

We make an example where a user can choose multiple choices using checkbox

Example (this is HTML - PHP editor, change text on this window)

<!DOCTYPE html>

  <html>

  <body> <h1>Form select multiple itemst</h1>
<form method="post" action="your URL action"> 

  <fieldset> 

  <legend>What is Your Favorite Town?</legend> 

  <input type="checkbox" name="favorite_town"

   value="Cats">Tokyo<br> 

  <input type="checkbox" name="favorite_town"

   value="Dogs">London<br> 

  <input type="checkbox" name="favorite_town"

   value="Birds">Barcelona<br> 

  <input type="checkbox" name="favorite_town"

   value="Birds">Paris<br> 

  <br> 

  <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 

  </fieldset> 

  </form>
<p>Select your town and then click the "Submit"

 button and the form-data will be sent to a page on the 

  server.</p>
</body>

  </html>

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Form select radio button

Radio buttons let a user select only one of a limited number of choices:

The <input type="radio"> defines a radio button. Radio buttons are presented in radio groups and only one radio button can be selected at the same time in a group.

Example (this is HTML - PHP editor, change text on this window)

<!DOCTYPE html>

  <html>

  <body>
<h1>How to display Radio Buttons</h1>
<form action="your URL page action">

  <p>Please select your favorite Web language:</p>

  <input type="radio" id="html"

   name="fav_language" value="HTML">

  <label for="html">HTML</label><br>

  <input type="radio" id="css"

   name="fav_language" value="CSS">

  <label for="css">CSS</label><br>

  <input type="radio" id="PHP"

   name="fav_language" value="PHP">

  <label for="css">PHP</label><br>

  <input type="radio" id="ASP"

   name="fav_language" value="ASP">

  <label for="css">ASP</label><br>

  <input type="radio" id="javascript"

   name="fav_language" value="JavaScript">

  <label for="javascript">JavaScript</label>

  </form>
</body>

  </html>

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