Question

I’m using this to populate a dropdown:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT user from `users` order by user asc") or die(mysql_error());
            echo '<select name="user" class="user">';
            while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
                echo "<option value=".$row['user'].">".$row['user']."</option>";
            }
            echo '</select>';

But the source is this:

<select name="user" class="user"><option value=joe bloggs>joe bloggs</option>

So when i do this:

var user = $('.user').val();

It only sees “joe” not “joe bloggs”?? Any ideas

Answer 1

$result = mysql_query("SELECT user from `users` order by user asc") or die(mysql_error());
        echo '<select name="user" class="user">';
        while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
            echo '<option value="'.htmlspecialchars($row['user']).'">'.htmlspecialchars($row['user']).'</option>';
        }
        echo '</select>';

Corrected for you 🙂