Dynamically populating list boxes
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<select name="City">
<cfoutput query="GetDepartments">
<option value="#GetDepartments.Location#">
#GetDepartments.Location#
</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>
<!-- radio buttons -->
<p>
Department:<br>
<input type="radio" name="Department" value="Training">Training<br>
<input type="radio" name="Department" value="Sales">Sales<br>
<input type="radio" name="Department" value="Marketing">Marketing<br>
<input type="radio" name="Department" value="HR">HR<br>
</p>
<!-- check box -->
<p>
Contractor? <input type="checkbox" name="Contractor" value="Yes" checked>Yes
</p>
<!-- reset button -->
<input type="reset" name="ResetForm" value="Clear Form">
<!-- submit button -->
<input type="submit" name="SubmitForm" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
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<cfquery name="GetDepartments"
datasource="CompanyInfo">
SELECT DISTINCT Location
FROM Departmt
</cfquery>
Get the locations of all departments in the Departmt
table. The DISTINCT clause eliminates duplicate
location names from the returned query results.
<select name="City">
<cfoutput query="GetDepartments">
<option
value="#GetDepartments.Location#">
#GetDepartments.Location#
</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>
Populate the City selection list from the Location
column of the GetDepartments query. The control
has one option for each row returned by the query.
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