# Help creating scrolling list and determing selected

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-creating-scrolling-list-and-determing-selected/69786
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 8, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-creating-scrolling-list-and-determing-selected/69786 "2004-11-08T04:31:09Z")
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### Author: ![mindfriction](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mindfriction/32/172_2.png) [@mindfriction](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mindfriction)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-creating-scrolling-list-and-determing-selected/69786/1 "2004-11-08T04:31:09Z")

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Hi,

Was wondering if someone could help me with this.

Im building a simple search function and I would like to be able to create a dynamically populated & horizontally scrollable list of “search by” items. I have 2 problems.

1. Im not sure how to best way to create the list on the fly
2. Im not sure how the best way to determine the selected “sort by” item

Any ideas?