How to create drop down boxes in a form with HTML/XHTML

A drop-down box is a drop-down list that allows users to select one item.

The code below shows you how to create a drop-down boxes in a form with HTML/XHTML.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="formscript.php" method="post">
<select name="tutorials">
<br />
<option value="html">HTML tutorials </option>
<br />
<option value="css">CSS tutorials </option>
<br />
<option value="javascript">javascript tutorials </option>
</select>

</form>

</body>
</html>

The above HTML code makes the form with a drop-down box below.

Use the text editor below to practice what you have learned.

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