# How to add dropdown list to this?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-add-dropdown-list-to-this/83258>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 24, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-add-dropdown-list-to-this/83258 "2007-01-24T18:59:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Overton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Ryan\_Overton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ryan_Overton)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-add-dropdown-list-to-this/83258/1 "2007-01-24T18:59:02Z")

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Pretty new to all of this…getting frustrated.

Search Service Tag: \<%= text\_field\_tag("query2", @params['query2'], :size =\> 10 ) %\>

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Overton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Ryan\_Overton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ryan_Overton)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-add-dropdown-list-to-this/83258/2 "2007-01-24T19:21:08Z")

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What do you mean? Could you post a full question, some problem you may  
be  
having? If you just want a select box in the forum, check out the Rails  
API  
docs ([api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com)) for helpers you can use.

Jason

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Overton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Ryan\_Overton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ryan_Overton)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-add-dropdown-list-to-this/83258/3 "2007-09-25T22:52:19Z")

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[http://api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org)

look at #collection\_select and related helpers (

> **[ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html)**
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> Provides a number of methods for turning different kinds of containers into a set of option tags.

)

Jason

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Overton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Ryan\_Overton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ryan_Overton)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-add-dropdown-list-to-this/83258/4 "2007-09-25T22:52:28Z")

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[http://76.186.99.71:3000/bisdinvs/list](http://76.186.99.71:3000/bisdinvs/list)

thats what I have so far. I want to add some more search items, and  
some of them will be static, so I need to use a drop down list.