Availability

Navigator 2.0, Internet Explorer 3.0; enhanced in Navigator 3.0

Description

The options[] property contains an array of Option objects, each of which describe one of the selection options presented within the Select object select. The options.length property specifies the number of elements in the array, as does the select.length property. See the Option object for further details.

In Navigator 3.0, you can modify the options displayed in a Select object in any of the following ways:

• If you set options.length to 0, all options in the Select object will be cleared.

• If you set options.length to a value less than the current value, then the number of options in the Select object will be decreased, and those and the end of the array will disappear.

• If you set an element in the options[] array to null, then that option will be removed from the Select object, and the elements above it in the array will be moved down, changing their indices, to occupy the new space in the array.

• If you create a new Option object with the Option() constructor (see the Option reference entry), you can add that option to the end of list of options in the Select object by assigning the newly created option to a position at the end of the options[] array. To do this, set options[options.length].

See Also

"Option", "Select"