The SELECT Tag

Inside <FORM> ... </FORM>, any number of SELECT tags are allowed, freely intermixed with other HTML elements (including INPUT and TEXTAREA elements) and text (but not additional forms).

Unlike INPUT, SELECT has both opening and closing tags. Inside SELECT, only a sequence of OPTION tags -- each followed by an arbitrary amount of plain text (no HTML markup) -- is allowed;

For example:

        <SELECT NAME="a-menu">
        <OPTION> First option.
        <OPTION> Second option.
        </SELECT>

The attributes to SELECT are as follows:

NAME is the symbolic name for this SELECT element. This must be present, as it is used when putting together the query string for the submitted form.
SIZE: if SIZE is 1 or if the SIZE attribute is missing, by default the SELECT will be represented as an option menu. If SIZE is 2 or more, the SELECT will be represented as a scrolled list; the value of SIZE then determines how many items will be visible.
MULTIPLE, if present (no value), specifies that the SELECT should allow multiple selections (n of many behavior). The presence of MULTIPLE forces the SELECT to be represented as a scrolled list, regardless of the value of SIZE.

The attributes to OPTION are as follows:

SELECTED specifies that this option is selected by default. If the SELECT allows multiple selections (via the MULTIPLE attribute), multiple options can be specified as SELECTED.
VALUE specifies this option's value when submitted. If multiple options are selected, each value is passed in order from first item in the list to the last selected item in the list.

Examples:

<SELECT NAME="example">
	<OPTION VALUE="one">Number 1
	<OPTION VALUE="two">Number 2	
	<OPTION VALUE="three">Number 3
</SELECT>

<SELECT NAME="example">
	<OPTION>Number 1
	<OPTION SELECTED>Number 2	
	<OPTION>Number 3
</SELECT>

<SELECT NAME="example" SIZE=2>
	<OPTION>Number 1
	<OPTION>Number 2	
	<OPTION>Number 3
</SELECT>

<SELECT NAME="example" SIZE=4>
	<OPTION>Number 1
	<OPTION>Number 2	
	<OPTION>Number 3
</SELECT>

<SELECT NAME="example" MULTIPLE SIZE=4>
	<OPTION SELECTED>Number 1
	<OPTION>Number 2	
	<OPTION SELECTED>Number 3
</SELECT>