Is it possible to use a for loop in <select> in html? and how?

Question

I am trying to use a for loop in html but i dont even know if this is possible. Is it? and if yes how? I dont want to use php. only html and javascript.

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Answer 1

HTML is not a programming language, just a markup language, so it doesn't include things like for loops or if statements. Javascript does though. You could use javascript to generate/manipulate the HTML, and thus use for loops to create your tags inside the . As a startup for javascript see checkout w3schools.com

I don't like using plain javascript though, I would rather choose a javascript framework like jQuery to do this. Using jquery it is really easy to do cross-platform compatible manipulation of the HTML dom using javascript. You would only need to include some extra javascript files inside your HTML to get it working. See http://jquery.com/

An example of using jquery would be this:

You can also try this out on http://jsfiddle.net/6HUHG/3/