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Andy Started conversation Jul 3, 2004
i came across my old welcome page and my drop box didnt work i thought this odd becouse i was sure it did when i left it i came across another page with a drop and that dosent work either
nd that one did as well
have i missed something have they boffins been fiddling with drop boxes
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The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Posted Jul 3, 2004
Can you give us a link, so we can see which drop-down you mean? The ones on my page seem to be working properly - do they work for you?
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Andy Posted Jul 3, 2004
i have fixed one just had to write it out again on my welcome page its worked fine before yeh A1090225
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The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Posted Jul 3, 2004
I think the problem is caused because each dropdown has the line
Each list needs to have a difefrent name - so you could use for the first, for the second, and so on...
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Andy Posted Jul 3, 2004
when i re did it i did the code in the same way as before and it worked for me???it worked the day i did it as well????????
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The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Posted Jul 3, 2004
Which one have you redone? I can't get any of yours to work 
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The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Posted Jul 3, 2004
That one works because there's only one dropdown on the page, so the name in the is unique.
The ones on your other page don't work because you're effectively trying to call several lists by the same name, because they all have .
Imagine you've you several friends called Bob. Suppose someone asks you if you've seen Bob. Which Bob do they mean? It could get a bit confusing, couldn't it? The same things happens with your drop-down lists - for your computer to be able to recognise them properly, all the drop-downs on the same page need to have unique names.
For instance, the following code should work if on your page (A1090225) - all I've done is changed the ITEM-LIST NAME:
OPTIONS
My guide
My welcome
Tags A-C
Addthred
BOX
Boxholder
B
Blockquote
BR
Brunel
Code
TAGS E-G
Entry
Forumintro
Footnote
Forumread
Guidebody
Guide
Guide
Guestbook
TAGS H-L
Header
H Tan
Item list
I
Intro
Link
TAGS O-R
OL LI
Pic
Pull Quote
Popup Conv
P
Refereces
TAGS S-Z
Section
Sub
SUP
Smiley
Sub header
Table
Table
UL Li
U
Volunteer
Viewer
Who Online
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The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Posted Jul 4, 2004
I really don't know... It *shouldn't* have worked before...
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The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Posted Jul 4, 2004
Have you managed to give the new code a try?
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