textarea with listed options

[Patrick Taylor]

I want to create a textarea - not one where the user enters text but one with a scrollable list of options, with selectable option values, (instead of doing it with dropdown menu because I will have a deep list of choices). Could anyone advise me how to do this? I'm not sure if it is actually a textarea as such but it needs to be a form-type scrolling box several options rows high.

[Paul in South Africa]

If I understand what you are trying to do correctly you should use the select element and add size="numRows" to it where numRows = the number of rows you want to display in the scrolling box.

[Patrick Taylor]

Thankyou! That's exactly it, and it works perfectly.