Terry,

HTML doesn't support this so you're pretty much out of luck for this...

You can display that first item that way and use some client side JavaScript to trap for that choice and not accept it in someway, but I think that's a bad way to go from a UI perspective too.

THe way this is usually done is that you have the first item in there and then your client or server side validation code checks for the stock value and refuses it when it's time to save the form.

+++ Rick ---

>I want to disable list items in a .Net 2003 Web based Drop Down List control. How can I do that server side? I do not want to display a blank item. I do that now and our QA says I need to display -Select and Item- instead. Additionally, they say that while -Select an Item- is the first item displayed and therefore selected, once a user selects another choice I should not allow them to return to the -Select an Item-. None of the selectable list items is permitted to be the default.
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>ie
>-Select an Item- (disabled)
>Item 1
>Item 2
>Item 3
>Item 4