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Hi, I am trying to making my dropdown selection box a required field. Currently if I select nothing then the form is submitted ok. I would like an alert of some description saying that something from the dropdown must be selected.

Here is my form code
<div class="form_item">
<div class="form_element cf_dropdown required">
<label class="cf_label" style="width: 200px;">How did you hear about us?</label>
<select class="cf_inputbox validate-selection required" id="select_12" size="1" title="How did you hear about us" name="hearabout">
<option value="None selected" >How did you hear about us?</option>
<optgroup label="Wedding Venue">
<option value="Flaxton-Gardens">Flaxton Gardens</option>
<option value="Laurels">Laurels</option>
<option value="On-Mountain-View">On Mountain View</option>
<option value="Other-venue">Other</option>
</optgroup>

<optgroup label="Magazine">
<option value="Qld-Brides">Qld Brides</option>
<option value="Brisbane-Brides">Brisbane Brides</option>
<option value="Coast Bride">Coast Brides</option>
<option value="Other-magazine">Other</option>
</optgroup>

<optgroup label="Search Engines">
<option value="Google">Google</option>
<option value="Yahoo">Yahoo</option>
<option value="MSN">MSN</option>
<option value="Other-website">Other</option>
</optgroup>

<optgroup label="Referral">
<option value="Other-wedding-supplier">Other Wedding Supplier</option>
<option value="Word-of-Mouth">Word of mouth</option>
<option value="Friend">Friend</option>
<option value="Other-referral">Other</option>
</optgroup>

</select>

</div>
<div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

Currently the email contains "None selected" as nothing has been selected and this is the default value.

Any suggestions?
Thanks Nicola

Hi Nicola,

You must have the default option with no value for the validation to work. Otherwise LiveValidation thinks that the default options is a valid selection:

<option value="" >How did you hear about us?</option>

Bob

Ahhh! So simple!
Thank you so much.
Nicola