https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/help-setting-the-default-value-on-a-custom-pre-populated-drop-down-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Help setting the default value on a custom pre-populated drop down field en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:49:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/help-setting-the-default-value-on-a-custom-pre-populated-drop-down-field#post-5655 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:38:05 +0000 Carl Hancock 5655@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>In order to do this you would need to be able to set a PHP variables to the State value. Because Gravity Forms does not use the abbreviation, you would need to take this a step further and be able to have a page variable that has the full State name.</p> <p>Once you can setup a variable that has the full State name you can then use PHP to pre-populate the State drop down field with the correct State.</p> <p>How comfortable are you with writing PHP? If you aren't very comfortable you may want to consider having someone assist you with this customization. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/help-setting-the-default-value-on-a-custom-pre-populated-drop-down-field#post-5646 Thu, 20 May 2010 19:03:42 +0000 elawsoftware 5646@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I need help setting the default value of a custom pre-populated drop down field based on the current URL.</p> <p>I have a custom drop down field with all of the states. If I'm in the Texas or California section of my site, I would like to set the state field to default to current state.</p> <p>My URL structure is setup as:</p> <p>/us/tx/ ...or... /us/ca/</p> <p>Basically I'm using the 2 letter state abbreviation for each state. I also have pages for each county within each state. </p> <p>I want to set the default field of a custom drop down based off of the URL. I have a page created for each state and I want the fiel </p>