# DropDown Element Element

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## Table of Contents

- 1 DropDown Element - #dropdown {}

## 1 DropDown Element - #dropdown {}

The dropdown element produces an HTML dropdown.

### Usage

    #dropdown { id=dropdown1, value="2", options=[
      #option { text="Option 1", value="1" },
      #option { text="Option 2", value="2" },
      #option { text="Option 3", value="3" }
    ]}

### Attributes

options - (list of option elements)
  Set the available options for this dropdown.
html_encode - (boolean)
  Set to true to safely html-encode the options' text.
postback - (Erlang term)

  If set, selecting an option will automatically initiate a Nitrogen postback with the supplied term.

value - (string)
  If set, the option matching this value will be selected by default.
html_name - (string)
  The name attribute of the dropdownbox

### See Also

- base element
- option element
- button element
- textbox element
- password element
- textarea element
- checkbox element

Date: 2012-10-18 03:25:48 CDT

Author: Rusty Klophaus (@rustyio)

Org version 7.8.02 with Emacs version 23

Validate XHTML 1.0

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