HTML select option to be captured from Google Spreadsheet

Question

I have been spending days to get over this but no luck.

I have a html page in Google script whereby I want a dropdown list - this is achieved as follows

Answer 1

To display the elements in the array instead of the array object itself, you need to include the DATA array inside Scriptlet tags.And I see no requirement to use a 2-dimensional array. The correct syntax should be:

And its really a bad idea to mix data-fetching code & html UI code within a template. You should use separate gs and html files & apply the optimizations as Mogsdad has suggested.