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hourSelectTag()

hourSelectTag() — returns string

Available in: controller Category: Form Tag Functions

Builds and returns a string containing one select form control for the hours of the day based on the supplied name.

NameTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
namestringyesName to populate in tag’s name attribute.
selectedstringnoThe day that should be selected initially.
includeBlankanynofalseWhether to include a blank option in the select form control. Pass true to include a blank line or a string that should represent what display text should appear for the empty value (for example, ”- Select One -”).
labelstringnoThe label text to use in the form control.
labelPlacementstringnoaroundWhether to place the label before, after, or wrapped around the form control. Label text placement can be controlled using aroundLeft or aroundRight.
prependstringnoString to prepend to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
appendstringnoString to append to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
prependToLabelstringnoString to prepend to the form control’s label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
appendToLabelstringnoString to append to the form control’s label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
twelveHourbooleannofalsewhether to display the hours in 24 or 12 hour format. 12 hour format has AM/PM drop downs
encodeanynotrueUse this argument to decide whether the output of the function should be encoded in order to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Set it to true to encode all relevant output for the specific HTML element in question (e.g. tag content, attribute values, and URLs). For HTML elements that have both tag content and attribute values you can set this argument to attributes to only encode attribute values and not tag content.
$nowdateno[runtime expression]