Resources for prepopulated form fields (country, county, DOB, height, weight etc)

[benyates1]

Does anyone know any good resources for already compiled data for common fields in forms like country, date of birth, height, weight etc?

I found a CSV resource from Paul Stenning at http://www.paulstenning.com/uk-towns-and-counties-list/ which is quite useful for UK towns, counties and countries.

[SamA74]

For a list of countries, a quick Google search comes up with results. This one has a list of countries in a few useful formats:-

https://gist.github.com/marijn/396531

For DoB, height and weight, I’m not so sure I would pre-set data for those.
With DoB the list would be extremely long, even if dealing with a narrow age range. In a form input maybe using a date type input would be better. The downside to that is the date type does not yet have universal browser support.
Another approach is to split it into 3 fields for day, month and year. These could be number type inputs with min and max attributes set appropriately, days: 1 - 31, months: 1 - 12, years can be set according to your target age range if you were dealing specifically with either children or adults. Or you may want a drop-down list for months, but that’s easy enough to do.

For height and weight, again just number type inputs with min and max set to a realistic range for your chosen units of measure.
If using feet & inches for height, you may split into two number inputs, with inches on a min - max range of 1 - 11 and feet as you see as realistic.

[benyates1]

Thanks for the reply - very useful.