This might be a bit basic, but it as got me stumped! Any help would be great.

I am creating a form with drop-down menus for the the date fields.
The problem is the 'Day' menu as 31 opitions, and when you select the drop down menu, this appears as a giant list of 30 numbers, and a scroll bar to select the 31st. What I want is to format the drop down menu to be 6 options high, and you can scroll though the other options.

I have seen this done on numerous sites, so i'm hoping it will be a simple task

Any suggestion would be much appreciated,

Thanks
Webbo

As far as I can determine you cannot select the depth of your drop down display in a pull-down menu, although I can offer two suggestions.

1) Look at your coding - Each entry in your menu should begin with <option> and end with </option> when I use this coding my menu displays only 10 items.

2) Perhaps you'd rather experiment with a Scrolling Box - if you use the following code <SELECT name="required-state" size="1" maxLength="50" > you get a pull-down menu - however if you change the size attribute to 4 you will get a Scrolling Box that displays only the first four items in your menu.

Personally I'd stay with the pull down.

Hope this helps.

EXAMPLE of what i'm trying to do:

I am using DW4 so this might vary in later versions, but...

If you look at the Reference tool bar, this contain some drop down menus.
The 2 TAG menus will drop down and show 7 options, and the scroll bar lets you search though loads more.


This is the code for the days:

<select name="daysearch">
<option selected>00</option>
<option>01</option>
<option>02</option>
<option>03</option>
<option>04</option>
<option>05</option>
<option>06</option>
<option>07</option>
<option>08</option>
<option>09</option>
<option>10</option>
<option>11</option>
<option>12</option>
<option>13</option>
<option>14</option>
<option>15</option>
<option>16</option>
<option>17</option>
<option>18</option>
<option>19</option>
<option>20</option>
<option>21</option>
<option>22</option>
<option>23</option>
<option>24</option>
<option>25</option>
<option>26</option>
<option>27</option>
<option>28</option>
<option>29</option>
<option>30</option>
<option>31</option>
</select>
<br>

and the drop down menu is the same lenght!

Does this help?

<select size="06">
<option selected>00</option>
<option>01</option>
<option>02</option>
<option>03</option>
<option>04</option>
<option>05</option>
<option>06</option>
<option>07</option>
<option>08</option>
<option>09</option>
<option>10</option>
<option>11</option>
<option>12</option>
<option>13</option>
<option>14</option>
<option>15</option>
<option>16</option>
<option>17</option>
<option>18</option>
<option>19</option>
<option>20</option>
<option>21</option>
<option>22</option>
<option>23</option>
<option>24</option>
<option>25</option>
<option>26</option>
<option>27</option>
<option>28</option>
<option>29</option>
<option>30</option>
<option>31</option>
</select>

Webbo76 - -

I pasted your code into my form and it displays 10 rows in a pull down menu. I suggest that you go here: http://www.webimagesinc.com/contact_us.htm and do a save as to your desktop - - You can then open my form in DW4 and compare it to what you have.

Hope this helps.