To add a new option to it, with the text "Text 1" displaying in the drop down box, and the value "Value1" being what would be submitted from the form, do this:. If you had an object that you wanted to use the property name as the value for the options, and the property value as the text to display, you could do this:. Note that while the above is an object, it's often referred to incorrectly as an associative array, even though technically it is not.

It can be accessed as an object e. ValueA, or like an array would be e.

HTML DOM Select options Collection

To reset the select box so it no longer has any options, set the length of the options property to zero like so:. And finally, here's all of the above in action.

If you are reading this in a feed reader the Javascript may not work. If it doesn't then click through to this post in a web browser. Friday's post will look at how to add a language selection drop down box in FCKEditor, using the way of populating a select drop down box with Javascript from an array as shown in this post. The HTML The example select box is initially unpopulated and the HTML for it looks like this: Contact - Copyright Info - Privacy Policy.