Title: Issues with dropdowns
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Issues with dropdowns

 *  Resolved [brittanie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brittanie/)
 * (@brittanie)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dropdowns/)
 * I’m new to WordPress, and I love it so far, expect I’m having major issues trying
   to put my monthly archives and categories into dropdown lists.
 * I have followed the instructions for both on the codex and get searched these
   forums with no luck (many of the posts are a year old and unanswered). I am having
   the following problems:
 * I get the Archives dropdown to work fine but it screws up my validity with the“
   form.”
 * For category drop downs ( sans submit button), they work beautifully in all browsers
   except Explorer 6.0, and then it shows an empty drop down box with the list of
   unlinkable categories below it.
 * Puhleeeease help me someone.
 * My test site is abroad-abroad.org/wordpress

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 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dropdowns/#post-260175)
 * It would be helpful if you made your “name/link” in the preferences the link 
   to your blog.
 * “Turn on” the drop down again and I will take a look.
 *  Thread Starter [brittanie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brittanie/)
 * (@brittanie)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dropdowns/#post-260196)
 * Okay, I turned back on the Monthly drop-down, and this is the W3.org error I’m
   getting:
    ` Error Line 177 column 36: document type does not allow element "form"
   here; assuming missing "li" start-tag. <form id="archiveform" action="">
 * Error Line 186 column 8: end tag for "li" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.
   
   </ul> You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-
   close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".
 * Info Line 177 column 4: start tag was here.
    <form id="archiveform" action=""
   >
 * I also added the dropdown cats and as I said before, they look beautiful in Safari
   and Firefox but totally broken in IE 6.0.
 * Here is my sidebar code:
    ` <div id="sidebar">
 *  <ul>
 * <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=<h2>' . __('Go Somewhere').'
   </h2>' ); ?>
 * <?php if ( is_home() || is_single() || is_archive()|| is_category()) : ?>
 * <li><h2><?php _e('Previously'); ?></h2>
    <ul> <?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&
   limit=5'); ?> </ul> </li>
 *  <li><h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
    <ul> <form name="catform" action="/
   index.php"> <select name="cat" onchange="submit(this.form)"> <option value=''
   >by section</option> <?php dropdown_cats(); ?> </select> </form> </ul> </li>
 *  <li><h2><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h2>
    <ul> <form id="archiveform" action=""
   > <select name="archive_chrono" onchange="window.location = (document.forms.archiveform.
   archive_chrono[document.forms.archiveform.archive_chrono.selectedIndex].value);"
   > <option value=''>Select Month</option> <?php get_archives('monthly','','option');?
   > </select> </form>
 *  </ul>
    </li>
 *  <?php endif; ?>
 *  <?php if ( is_page('Link-A-Rama')) : ?>
 *  <?php
    $link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->
   linkcategories"); foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) { ?> <li id="linkcat-<?php
   echo $link_cat->cat_id; ?>"><h2><?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?></h2> <ul> 
   <?php wp_get_links($link_cat->cat_id); ?> </ul> </li> <?php } ?>
 * <?php endif; ?>
 * <?php if ( is_page('This Is Me')) : ?>
 *  <li><h2><?php _e('Meta'); ?></h2>
    <ul> <?php wp_register(); ?> <li><?php wp_loginout();?
   ></li> <li><a href="[http://validator.w3.org/check/referer&quot](http://validator.w3.org/check/referer&quot);
   title="<?php _e('This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional'); ?>"><?php _e('
   Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr>'); ?></
   a></li> <?php wp_meta(); ?>
 *  </ul>
    </li>
 *  <li><h2>Search me</h2>
    <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
   </li>
 * <?php endif; ?>
 *  </ul>
    </div>
 * Thanks in advance for any advice.
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dropdowns/#post-260235)
 * Easy enough (answer even given in the error message ;-)…
 * `<li>`<h2>Categories</h2>
    `<ul>` **`<li>`** form and dropdown tag **`</li>`**`
   </ul></li>`
 *  Thread Starter [brittanie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brittanie/)
 * (@brittanie)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dropdowns/#post-260300)
 * Okay, that worked to validate the Archives list, but I STILL can’t get the category
   dropdown to work at all. I swear it’s driving me crazy and it’s likely just one
   little piece of code. I have tried the fixes on the codex and I have edited my
   template-functions-category file so that the page is now valid, but validity 
   don’t mean nuttin’ if it don’t work, y’all.
 *  Thread Starter [brittanie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brittanie/)
 * (@brittanie)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dropdowns/#post-260317)
 * Never mind, I fixed it. My WP isn’t installed in my root, so I had to add the
   directory to the index/php code.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dropdowns/#post-260317)
 * Status: resolved

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