Repopulate a Dropdown

[eluser]danmontgomery[/eluser]
[quote author="digitaldivaradio" date="1276032699"]I understand that, I know I can set the select value. I want it to repopulate if the form fails with the user's selection. not mine.[/quote]

So you would pass the submitted values to the view, and use the 3rd parameter of form_dropdown()

Code:

echo form_dropdown('occupation',$occupation,$this->input->post('occupation'));