title: HTML Drop Down List Best Practices
body: <p>I'm putting together a fairly simple HTML/Javascript/PHP form (I am fairly new to all of these). One field of the form requires users to select an option from a reasonably long list (using a drop down list). The contents of the list are  extremely unlikely to ever change. Is there a "better" way to populate the list than simply using a lot of <code>&lt;option&gt;</code> tags:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="longlist"&gt;
      &lt;option value="one"&gt;One&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="two"&gt;Two&lt;/option&gt;
      ....
      &lt;option value="sixty"&gt;Sixty&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>