how to make default for dynamic list

[afreedboy]

Currently i am trying a simple database. I got birthday from users and store in database. When i want to update i will show the page with drop down menu. But if user have entered it december, i want default of the list to be december.
here is what I tried

  <select name=brith_Month id="brith_Month">
			  	<OPTION SELECTED="selected"><%=rs("brith_Month")%>
                    <option value=JANUARY>JANUARY 
                    <option value=FEBRUARY>FEBRUARY 
                    <option 
        value="MARCH ">MARCH 
                    <option value=APRIL>APRIL 
                    <option 
        value=MAY>MAY 
                    <option value="JUNE ">JUNE 
                    <option value="JULY ">JULY 
                    <option 
        value=AUGUST>AUGUST 
                    <option value="SEPTEMBER ">SEPTEMBER 
                    <option 
        value=OCTOBER>OCTOBER 
                    <option value=NOVEMBER>NOVEMBER 
                    <option 
        value=DECEMBER>DECEMBER</option>
              </select>

what that would be two december.

is there anyone know how to do it for just one value.

[ober]

First off, you need to close each option with a </option> tag.

Secondly, you need to have a value in the "selected" option.

Thirdly, it's "birth_month", unless you meant to spell it that way.

Fourthly, what you should be doing is using a loop to remove the option that is selected so that you don't have 2.

[afreedboy]

Can u show me how to make a loop?

[ober]

What language? PHP? ASP? Perl? JS?

[ober]

Here's the PHP version, but it assumes you're storing your birth month as an integer. I assume you're using ASP, so you may have to change it. I don't know ASP, so I can't help you there. Search Google... it may give you the answer.

<select name="blah">
<?php
for($i=1;$i<13;$i++)
{
	if($i != $row['birth_month'])
		echo "<option value=\"$i\">" . date ("F", mktime (0,0,0,$i,1,2005)) . "</option>";
}
?>
</select>