Victor Chen

This is a quick tutorial on creating a dropdown in HTML. The example below has a name of myName and an id of myId. The main difference between the id and name is that the id is the identifier as used by javascript. On the other hand, name is the value recognized by form postbacks.

First, the working example:

Next, the example code:

<select id="myId" name="myName">
  <option value="0">0</option>
  <option value="1">1</option>
  <option value="2">2</option>
  <option value="3">3</option>
  <option value="4">4</option>
  <option value="5">5</option>
</select>