Selecting an option in a SELECT feild

Question

lets say i have a form which allows me to edit details of
products stored in a database. on this edit form, i have a select
box where the user can indicate the color of the item.
since it is an EDIT form, there is already data abotu the
product in the database so when i display the form, if the item has
a value of RED for the color field, i want the select control to
have the RED option already selected when it loads.
i have always done it using the following method but it seems
liek there must be a better way of doing it:
<select name="color">
<option value="green" <CFIF #myquery.color# EQ
"Green">selected</CFIF>>Green</select>
<option value="orange" <CFIF #myquery.color# EQ
"Orange">selected</CFIF>>Orange</select>
<option value="red" <CFIF #myquery.color# EQ
"Red">selected</CFIF>>Red</select>
</select>
this always works, but it seems like putting a CFIF tag
inside an option tag is not the best way to go. is there a better
method of doing this?

Answer 1

I will often use the "immediate if" [iif()] function. It is
pretty much
the same concept, I do it mostly so I don't have the nested
angle brackets.
<select name="color">
<option value="green" #iif(myquery.color EQ
"Green",DE("selected"),DE(""))#>Green</select>
</select>
You also do not need the pound signs around "myquery.color"
in either
this version or your original <cfif...> tag version.
That helps cleans
up things as well.