Setting SELECT option value

[Meltdown]

Hi All,

In JS can you set the value of a SELECT dropdown box by text value, not index value?

The following will set the SELECT box by the index value, selecting the second value in the dropdown box

var varyear = 1
document.myform.year.options[varyear].selected = true;

however i want to set it like this...
var varyear = 2006
document.myform.year.options[varyear].selected = true;

...to set the SELECTED value to 2006...which doesn't work

Thanks for any help

Melt

[scarecrow-rye]

Might it be the case of looping through each of the SELECTs options and comparing its value to your string? Something like:

for (i=0; i<myform.year.options.length; i++) {
if (myform.year.options[i],value == varyear) {
myform.year.options[i].selected = true;
break;
}
}

This is just off the top of my head and hasnt been tested.