Country Selection Form
Basic Help
When you are creating a form, you often want the person filling out the form to provide an address. Given the international nature of the internet, one thing that you need to capture as part of any address is the Country. The countries in the world are relatively static (barring wars and successions) so a drop down list where the person can select their country rather than typing it is one option to consider. Unfortunately there are quite a lot of countries in the world and finding a relatively complete list may take some time let alone the time required to convert that list into a drop down selection box.
Never fear because I am about to save you the trouble of doing any of that. The following generates the HTML for a dropdown list that allows one of 235 different countries to be selected which is as close as I can get to including all of the countries of the world. All you need to do is to name the drop down list and select which country you want as the default. (If I haven't offered your preferred country as the default you can change the code to get the default you want by selecting Australia and then transferring the ' selected="selected"' code to the option that you want as the default).
If you are wondering what the dropdown looks like once inserted into your page, here is a form containing the code with Australia selected as the default.
