problem with select menu

**Harlan Messinger** · Jul 20 '05, 07:36 PM

Re: problem with select menu

"blaine YOung" <byoung@ynotbid .com> wrote in message
news:dc5989cc.0 408111329.7feb3 24@posting.goog le.com...[color=blue]
> I have a problem that I hope someone can explain why it is happening
> and how to fix it.
> In order to explain my problem, I am going to define the word
> "container" which i will use often in this post. A container is this:
> <CONTAINER>, in other words all the characters between the < and > and
> including the < and > signs. (What is the correct term for this
> anyhow?)[/color]

"Tag". I'm curious how you learned HTML without this most basic HTML term!
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> The container is used for placing data from a cgi script on
> to a webpage.
>
> Here is my problem: when I put 2 of the same containers very close
> together on a page, the first container is filled with data and the
> second isn't.
> Here is an example:
> <select name=PROV>
> <option name="value" value="<PROV>" selected><PROV> </option>[/color]

To include the < and > symbols in an HTML page as text or as attribute
values, you need to replace them with < and > respectively.

<option name="value" value="<PROV >" selected><PR OV></option>[color=blue]
>
> In the above example there are 2 <PROV> containers[/color]

What do you mean by <PROV> containers? You have two SELECT lists with the
same name?

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> that I want to get
> filled with the same data. However, only the first container is filled
> and the second is left unfilled. This is what it looks like when I
> view source of the page:
> <select name=PROV>
> <option name="value" value="BC" selected><PROV> </option>
>
> Yet, if I separate the <PROV> containers by putting the second one
> somewhere else on the page, both containers are filled with the data
> "BC". WHY?
>
> Is this a widely known problem or is it a unique problem that I am
> having because I have a coding error somewhere the page.
>
> All questions and comments are greatly appreciated.
> Blaine[/color]

**Neal** · Jul 20 '05, 07:36 PM

Re: problem with select menu

On 11 Aug 2004 14:29:21 -0700, blaine YOung <byoung@ynotbid .com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have a problem that I hope someone can explain why it is happening
> and how to fix it.
> In order to explain my problem, I am going to define the word
> "container" which i will use often in this post. A container is this:
> <CONTAINER>, in other words all the characters between the < and > and
> including the < and > signs. (What is the correct term for this
> anyhow?) The container is used for placing data from a cgi script on
> to a webpage.[/color]

It's a tag.
[color=blue]
> Here is my problem: when I put 2 of the same containers very close
> together on a page, the first container is filled with data and the
> second isn't.
> Here is an example:
> <select name=PROV>
> <option name="value" value="<PROV>" selected><PROV> </option>[/color]

Problem is that < means a tag has started. When you write <PROV> you are
using poor syntax. The first instance is seemingly a tag within a tag,
which makes no sense. The second is an apparent empty <PROV> tag, which
doesn't exist.

Who taught you that <PROV> would ever be legitimate in a webpage? Shoot
them.

**blaine YOung** · Jul 20 '05, 07:37 PM

Re: problem with select menu

byoung@ynotbid. com (blaine YOung) wrote in message news:<dc5989cc. 0408111329.7feb 324@posting.goo gle.com>...[color=blue]
> I have a problem that I hope someone can explain why it is happening
> and how to fix it.
> In order to explain my problem, I am going to define the word
> "container" which i will use often in this post. A container is this:
> <CONTAINER>, in other words all the characters between the < and > and
> including the < and > signs. (What is the correct term for this
> anyhow?) The container is used for placing data from a cgi script on
> to a webpage.
>
> Here is my problem: when I put 2 of the same containers very close
> together on a page, the first container is filled with data and the
> second isn't.
> Here is an example:
> <select name=PROV>
> <option name="value" value="<PROV>" selected><PROV> </option>
>
> In the above example there are 2 <PROV> containers that I want to get
> filled with the same data. However, only the first container is filled
> and the second is left unfilled. This is what it looks like when I
> view source of the page:
> <select name=PROV>
> <option name="value" value="BC" selected><PROV> </option>
>
> Yet, if I separate the <PROV> containers by putting the second one
> somewhere else on the page, both containers are filled with the data
> "BC". WHY?
>
> Is this a widely known problem or is it a unique problem that I am
> having because I have a coding error somewhere the page.
>
> All questions and comments are greatly appreciated.
> Blaine[/color]

Thanks Harlan and Neal for your replies.

A little background info: a programmer wrote the cgi script (C) and
html for me. He has since moved on and now I am learning it for
myself, by looking at his his work and by reading books.

I know what a tag is. I believe tags are predined and one can't make
up their own - correct me if I'm wrong. I intentionally called <PROV>
a container because when the page it is used in is generated by the
cgi script, the parse script looks for <PROV> and fills it with data
from the database. Here is the specific line that does that:

else if (ParseHtml(stdo ut,command,"<PR OV>")==1) printf("%s",
province);

Since I posted yesterday though, I decided to just delete that section
of the page because it was somewhat redundant and I can make do
without it.

That said, I am still interested to know the correct term for
<I_AM_A_SPOT_TH AT_GETS_FILLED_ WITH_DATA_FROM_ THE_DB>. Is it still a
tag? Should I ask on the cgi authoring group instead?

Blaine

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