Question

I have the following HTML code:

<select name="forma">
    <option value="Home">Home</option>
    <option value="Contact">Contact</option>
    <option value="Sitemap">Sitemap</option>
</select>

How can I make Home, Contact and Sitemap values as links?
I used the following code and as I expected it didn’t work:

<select name="forma">
    <option value="Home"><a href="home.php">Home</a></option>
    <option value="Contact"><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></option>
    <option value="Sitemap"><a href="sitemap.php">Sitemap</a></option>
</select>

Answer 1

UPDATE 2022: This answer is fine but really in 2022 we shouldn’t be doing this anymore!

UPDATE (May 2020): Someone asked in the comments why I wouldn’t advocate this solution. I guess it’s a question of semantics. I’d rather my users navigate using <a> and kept <select> for making form selections because HTML elements have semantic meeting and they have a purpose, anchors take you places, <select> are for picking things from lists.

Consider, if you are viewing a page with a non-traditional browser (a non graphical browser or screen reader or the page is accessed programmatically, or JavaScript is disabled) what then is the "meaning" or the "intent" of this <select> you have used for navigation? It is saying "please pick a page name" and not a lot else, certainly nothing about navigating. The easy response to this is well i know that my users will be using IE or whatever so shrug but this kinda misses the point of semantic importance.

Whereas a funky drop-down UI element made of suitable layout elements (and some js) containing some regular anchors still retains it intent even if the layout element is lost, "these are a bunch of links, select one and we will navigate there".

Here is an article on the misuse and abuse of <select>.

ORIGINAL ANSWER

<select name="forma" onchange="location = this.value;">
 <option value="Home.php">Home</option>
 <option value="Contact.php">Contact</option>
 <option value="Sitemap.php">Sitemap</option>
</select>

UPDATE (Nov 2015): In this day and age if you want to have a drop menu there are plenty of arguably better ways to implement one. This answer is a direct answer to a direct question, but I don’t advocate this method for public facing web sites.