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State Abbreviations in Dropdown - Permitted?

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From: james.kalbach@lexisnexis.com
Date: Dec 2, 2005 7:40AM

Hello,



I have a situation where the US postal code state abbreviations (e.g. AK,
NJ, SC, etc.) are to appear in a dropdown menu. Neither the acronym tag not
the abbreviation tag can be used within a pick list.



Has anyone ever had this situation? Can this be done or must the names be
written out in full? Would the abbreviations be understandable anyway? Any
work-arounds you can think of?



Thanks

Jim



Ps - I searched the archive but didn't see anything regarding this specific
situation.