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Forms: Select Menu

We use selected in the HTML to pre-select one item in a menu like this one. If no line has that designation, the initial choice will be the top item. If you want a blank item to show, you must create a blank (empty) option.

The menu scrolls to reveal all 50 U.S. states. The number of options that are visible is set in the HTML with the size attribute.

Choose any state from the menu. The value (which is that state's abbreviation) will be written into the text field at right. Click Submit to see both the state name and the abbreviation written into the document.

Note that the Reset button resets all form elements, but it does not reload the page.

Select your state:

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

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