Making a country Pre-Selected

Hi JS Gurus,

Could you please help fix the following issue.
I have an asp (classic) page where a <select> element is filled with javascript arrays. I need to make a country of my choice, say Japan, preselected.

Please let me know how can I do this using the following code:

<%
function getCountries(regionId)
	dim adoRs,sqlStr,temp
	temp=""
	sqlStr="select countryId from tblCountry where regionId=" & regionId
	set adoRs=server.CreateObject("ADODB.recordset")
	adoRs.Open sqlStr,strConn,adOpenForwardOnly,adLockOptimistic
	do while not(adoRs.EOF)
		temp=temp & adoRs("countryId") & ","
		adoRs.movenext
	loop
	adoRs.close
	set adoRs=nothing
	
	if len(temp)>0 then
		temp=left(temp,len(temp)-1)
	end if
	getCountries=temp
end function
%>

[B][I]Following is <select> element being filled with js array;[/I][/B]

<select name="countryId" class=searchbycountry onclick="javascript:if(this.length<=1){window.alert('Please choose a Region before selecting a Country of Destination.');document.form1.regionId.focus();}" onChange="javascript:OnCountryChange();" onFocus="javascript:this.style.backgroundColor='#ffff66';" onBlur="javascript:this.style.backgroundColor='#ffffff';"><option value="">Select a Destination Country</option></select>

[B][I]At the end of the page following code is written which does the actual filling:[/I][/B]

<script language="javascript">
<!--
var aRegion = new Array;
var aCountry = new Array;
var catCountry = new Array;
var catCity = new Array;
var aCity = new Array;
<%  Dim adoRs,SQLString
	Set adoRs=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.RecordSet")
    SQLString="select regionId,name from tblRegion"
	adoRs.Open SQLString,strConn,adOpenForwardOnly,adLockOptimistic
    while not(adoRs.EOF or adoRs.BOF)
%>
aRegion[<%=adoRs("regionId")%>]="<%=adoRs("name")%>";
catCountry[<%=adoRs("regionId")%>]=[<%=getCountries(adoRs("regionId"))%>];
<%	adoRs.MoveNext
	wend
	adoRs.Close
%>

Code (markup):

In the above catCountry fills the country dropdown. Please help to make a country pre-selected.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

regards,

manualauto

 

1. there's an asp forum
2. best practice here is to not rely on js for this - in your DB interaction, where you read the countries, you may as well read your selected/current one and then build the <option> elements with a selected='selected' for the relevant line, FROM ASP.