Selected Drop Down Values

while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
$str .='<option value='.$row[0].'';
if ($row[0] == $UserID)
{
$str .='selected="selected"';
}
$str .= '>'.$row[1].'</option>';
}
echo $str;

My code is not working. I retrieved everything from the database. Let's say the drop down list has 10 values and UserID=4. But when I view the page, the 4th option is not selected. Instead the 1st option is selected. Why is that so?

It's more of a PHP question and definitely not Javascript. You should have posted it there. Ask the mod to move it and don't cross-post.

I don't know PHP but the first thing you need to do is to view the generated HTML source to check if the HTML for the dropdown is correct. You might be missing some quotes...

In an html select you don't set selected="selected". You just put selected without quotes or anything within the brackets.

like


<select name="name">
<option value="value1">Value 1</option>
<option value="value2" selected>Value 2</option>
</select>

In an html select you don't set selected="selected". You just put selected without quotes or anything within the brackets.

like


<select name="name">
<option value="value1">Value 1</option>
<option value="value2" selected>Value 2</option>
</select>

In XHTML (http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_syntax.asp), attribute minimization is forbidden.

i stand corrected.