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yearSelectTag()

View Helpers Form Tag Functions string controller

Builds and returns a string containing a select form control for a range of years based on the supplied name.

Name Type Required Default Description
name string Yes Name to populate in tag's name attribute.
selected string No The year that should be selected initially.
startYear numeric No 2018 First year in select list.
endYear numeric No 2028 Last year in select list.
includeBlank any No false Whether to include a blank option in the select form control. Pass true to include a blank line or a string that should represent what display text should appear for the empty value (for example, "- Select One -").
label string No The label text to use in the form control.
labelPlacement string No around Whether to place the label before, after, or wrapped around the form control. Label text placement can be controlled using aroundLeft or aroundRight.
prepend string No String to prepend to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
append string No String to append to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
prependToLabel string No String to prepend to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
appendToLabel string No String to append to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
encode any No true Use this argument to decide whether the output of the function should be encoded in order to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Set it to true to encode all relevant output for the specific HTML element in question (e.g. tag content, attribute values, and URLs). For HTML elements that have both tag content and attribute values you can set this argument to attributes to only encode attribute values and not tag content. 
<!--- View Code --->
#yearSelectTag(name="yearOfBirthday", selected=params.yearOfBirthday)#

// Only allow selection of year to be for the past 50 years, minimum being 18 years ago
fiftyYearsAgo = Now() - 50;
eighteenYearsAgo = Now() - 18;

<!--- View Code --->
#yearSelectTag(name="yearOfBirthday", selected=params.yearOfBirthday, startYear=fiftyYearsAgo, endYear=eighteenYearsAgo)#

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Form Tag Functions