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August 28th, 2003, 08:49 AM

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dynamic drop down list for CF

Im trying to get a drop down list to dynamicaly pull distinct categorys from a database to a drop down, any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

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August 28th, 2003, 04:22 PM

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Same problem occured with me! Its not working in IE for CE!

Anyone have a way to over come it?

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August 29th, 2003, 09:29 AM

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Unless I'm missing something, this is really easy to do:

<cfquery name="myQuery">
select distinct categoryID, categoryName
from categories
</cfquery>

<form>
<select name="categoryid" size="1">
<cfoutput query="myQuery">
<option value="#myQuery.categoryID#">#myQuery.categoryName#</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>
</form>

September 8th, 2003, 10:08 AM

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thanks

thank you for your help

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