Question

Im making a selectbox with the values from my DB, and I want the first value to be “make a choice”.

How can it be done?
I have this code..

                <tr>
                <td width="180" height="30"><label for="valgtkon" class="labelLeft">Vælg konkurrencetype</label></td> 
                <td><select id="valgtTitel" name="valgtTitel" onchange="run()">                  
                <?php
                $virksomhedsID = $_SESSION['virkID'];
                $sql = "SELECT * FROM konkurrenceType ORDER BY konkurrenceType.kontypeID";
                $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());                  

                while($rowSelect = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
                { 
                    $kontypeTitel = $rowSelect['kontypeTitel'];
                    $kontypeID = $rowSelect['kontypeID'];

                    echo '<option value="' . $kontypeID . '">' . $kontypeTitel . '</option>';
                }?>                    
                </select></td>
                <script>
                function run() {
                    document.getElementById("valgtID").value = document.getElementById("valgtTitel").value;
                }
                </script>


                <td><input type="text" name="valgtID" id="valgtID"/></td>
                </tr>

Answer 1

Before the while loop, add another echo statement creating the option for the first “make a choice” option, then add some validation on submission to make sure they selected a different choice from the list.