https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Add optgroup to countries dropdown en Mon, 04 May 2026 00:06:59 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/add-optgroup-to-countries-dropdown#post-8760 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:52:09 +0000 yuniar 8760@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Yes, you can replace it with standard tags, replacing the {$country_markup}<br /> It won't break your machform. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/add-optgroup-to-countries-dropdown#post-8755 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:16:24 +0000 philwareham 8755@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Thanks yuniar,<br /> The query I had really was if the id numbers in the country list are crucial to the working of machform and how it would affect (if at all) how you set a selected country when making up a form, for example...</p> <p>$country[11]['label'] = "Bahrain";<br /> $country[12]['label'] = "Bangladesh";<br /> $country[13]['label'] = "Barbados";</p> <p>and...</p> <p>$country[11]['value'] = "Bahrain";<br /> $country[12]['value'] = "Bangladesh";<br /> $country[13]['value'] = "Barbados";</p> <p>So I can replace all this with standard option tags where {$country_markup} was without breaking machform, yes? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/add-optgroup-to-countries-dropdown#post-8729 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:06:37 +0000 yuniar 8729@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>The code for displaying the country dropdown is located around line 1430 - 1435 in your "includes/view-functions.php" file.</p> <p>You should find this code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div id=&quot;li_{$element-&gt;id}_div_6&quot; class=&quot;right&quot;&gt; &lt;select class=&quot;element select medium&quot; id=&quot;element_{$element-&gt;id}_6&quot; name=&quot;element_{$element-&gt;id}_6&quot;&gt; {$country_markup} &lt;/select&gt; &lt;label for=&quot;element_{$element-&gt;id}_6&quot;&gt;{$lang[&#39;address_country&#39;]}&lt;/label&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> <p>You can replace "{$country_markup}" line with the HTML tag for the dropdown which includes the optgroup tag. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/add-optgroup-to-countries-dropdown#post-8718 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:14:09 +0000 philwareham 8718@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi,<br /> Is it possible to manually edit the countries code within view-functions.php file so the countries can be within optgroup tags for the different continents. If so can you give me a couple of pointers on how to do it?<br /> Thanks,<br /> Phil </p>