Hi

You know when you have a drop down menu, which, for example, might begin: "Country¦UK¦USA¦...", does anybody know how I can make sure my users do not select the first one, "country"?

Thanks

technically, this should be in the javascript forum, but ill post it here anyway. what you have to do is give the form a name, lets call it "country". now keep the first entry "Select Country" like you have it. in a drop down box, javascript looks at all the values as an array, so you must treat it as that. so heres the javascript.

var myindex = document.forms[0].country.selectedIndex;
	if (myindex == 0) {
		alert("Please select a country from the appropriate menu.");
		document.forms[0].country.focus();
		return false;
	}

of course, you must call this when the form is submited. but i hope this helps you out a little.

Great, thanks, I'll take a look at that in more detail once I get home tonight

Hey why do you need to include the country inside your drop down menu if you don't like other users to choose em?

Good point...
Also, you should think about server side validation as well as client side (that is, if you're using any server side code to process it). Another good thing about ASP.NET - handles the client side and server side validation for you in the same control. Also protects against people dropping scripts into your forms.