PRINT_OPTION Procedure

This procedure outputs an OPTION tag.

Syntax

APEX_PLUGIN_UTIL.PRINT_OPTION (
    p_display_value       IN VARCHAR2,
    p_return_value        IN VARCHAR2,
    p_is_selected         IN BOOLEAN,
    p_attributes          IN VARCHAR2,
    p_escape              IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE);

Parameters

Table 28-40 PRINT_OPTION Parameters

Parameter Description

p_display_value

Text which is displayed by the option.

p_return_value

Value which is set when the option is picked.

p_is_selected

Set to TRUE if the selected attribute should be set for this option.

p_attributes

Additional HTML attributes which should be set for the OPTION tag.

p_escape

Set to TRUE if special characters in p_display_value should be escaped.

Example

The following example could be used in an item type plug-in to create a SELECT list. Use apex_plugin_util.is_equal to find out which list entry should be marked as current.

sys.htp.p('<select id="'||p_item.name||'" size="'||nvl(p_item.element_height, 5)||'" '||coalesce(p_item.element_attributes, 'class="new_select_list"')||'>');
-- loop through the result and add list entries
for i in 1 .. l_values.count
loop
    apex_plugin_util.print_option (
        p_display_value => l_values(i).display_value,
        p_return_value  => l_values(i).return_value,
        p_is_selected   => apex_plugin_util.is_equal(l_values(i).return_value, p_value),
        p_attributes    => p_item.element_option_attributes,
        p_escape        => true );
end loop;
sys.htp.p('</select>');