State Abbreviations
tim @ 2:52 pm — Filed under: Ok, this is driving me nuts and I had to post this.
I am creating a simple form for one of our newest releases. It includes a drop down box for choosing your “State”. Now, you would think that if you searched for “State abbreviations” on google you would find a long list of abbreviations you could copy and paste and viola, have your drop down. HOWEVER, this is not the case. Everything I find is a table based site that has the state name in one column and the abbreviation in the other. Well, this doesn’t work because it’s sorted alphabetically by the state NAME, which is not alphabetical by state abbreviation!! ARGH!
So, my complaint I guess is, why, OH WHY!?! isn’t there a list of JUST alphabatized abbreviations where a developer like ME can go and copy and paste to populate my combo box…well, now there is, no thanks to YOU (internet community)!!!
(How nice, already in array format)
var stateList:Array = new Array(”",”AK”,”AL”,”AR”,”AS”,”AZ”,”CA”,”CO”,”CT”,”DC”,”DE”,”FL”,”GA”,”GU”,”HI”,”IA”,”ID”,
“IL”,”IN”,”KS”,”KY”,”LA”,”MA”,”MD”,”ME”,”MH”,”MI”,”MN”,”MO”,”MS”,”MT”,”NC”,”ND”,”NE”,”NH”,”NJ”,”NM”,”NV”,”NY”,
“OH”,”OK”,”OR”,”PA”,”PR”,”PW”,”RI”,”SC”,”SD”,”TN”,”TX”,”UT”,”VA”,”VI”,”VT”,”WA”,”WI”,”WV”,”WY”);
May 17th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
you are too kind my friend
*throws a nickle accross the loft at you*
heh.
May 24th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
I found your site while I was searching for just the 2 letter list to put in a .csv for a form program. This list may help others also (50 US Staes + DC):
AL
AK
AZ
AR
CA
CO
CT
DE
DC
FL
GA
HI
ID
IL
IN
IA
KS
KY
LA
ME
MD
MA
MI
MN
MS
MO
MT
NE
NV
NH
NJ
NM
NY
NC
ND
OH
OK
OR
PA
RI
SC
SD
TN
TX
UT
VT
VA
WA
WV
WI
WY
November 21st, 2006 at 7:35 am
But I wanted a list with the 2 letter abbreviation followed by the state name! Whaaaa!!! There always has to be a whiner doesn’t there?
September 7th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
w00t! I LOVE you!
September 26th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Array(’AK’ => ‘Alaska’, ‘AL’ => ‘Alabama’, ‘AR’ => ‘Arkansas’, ‘AZ’ => ‘Arizona’, ‘CA’ => ‘California’, ‘CO’ => ‘Colorado’, ‘CT’ => ‘Connecticut’, ‘DE’ => ‘Delaware’, ‘DC’ => ‘District of Columbia’, ‘FL’ => ‘Florida’, ‘GA’ => ‘Georgia’, ‘HI’ => ‘Hawaii’, ‘IA’ => ‘Iowa’, ‘ID’ => ‘Idaho’, ‘IL’ => ‘Illinois’, ‘IN’ => ‘Indiana’, ‘KS’ => ‘Kansas’, ‘KY’ => ‘Kentucky’, ‘LA’ => ‘Louisiana’, ‘MA’ => ‘Massachusetts’, ‘MD’ => ‘Maryland’, ‘ME’ => ‘Maine’, ‘MI’ => ‘Michigan’, ‘MN’ => ‘Minnesota’, ‘MS’ => ‘Mississippi’, ‘MO’ => ‘Missouri’, ‘MT’ => ‘Montana’, ‘NC’ => ‘North Carolina’, ‘ND’ => ‘North Dakota’, ‘NE’ => ‘Nebraska’, ‘NH’ => ‘New Hampshire’, ‘NJ’ => ‘New Jersey’, ‘NM’ => ‘New Mexico’, ‘NV’ => ‘Nevada’, ‘NY’ => ‘New York’, ‘OH’ => ‘Ohio’, ‘OK’ => ‘Oklahoma’, ‘OR’ => ‘Oregon’, ‘PA’ => ‘Pennsylvania’, ‘RI’ => ‘Rhode Island’, ‘SC’ => ‘South Carolina’, ‘SD’ => ‘South Dakota’, ‘TN’ => ‘Tennessee’, ‘TX’ => ‘Texas’, ‘UT’ => ‘Utah’, ‘VA’ => ‘Virginia’, ‘VT’ => ‘Vermont’, ‘WA’ => ‘Washington’, ‘WI’ => ‘Wisconsin’, ‘WV’ => ‘West Virginia’, ‘WY’ => ‘Wyoming’);
November 27th, 2007 at 11:54 am
You truly rock my friend.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
For a Flash CS3 / ActionScript / Flex combo box, I used the following:
var stateData = new Array ( {data: ‘AK’, label: ‘Alaska’}, {data: ‘AL’, label: ‘Alabama’}, {data: ‘AR’, label: ‘Arkansas’}, {data: ‘AZ’, label: ‘Arizona’}, {data: ‘CA’, label: ‘California’}, {data: ‘CO’, label: ‘Colorado’}, {data: ‘CT’, label: ‘Connecticut’}, {data:
‘DE’, label: ‘Delaware’}, {data: ‘DC’, label: ‘District of Columbia’}, {data: ‘FL’, label: ‘Florida’}, {data: ‘GA’, label: ‘Georgia’}, {data: ‘HI’, label: ‘Hawaii’}, {data: ‘IA’, label: ‘Iowa’}, {data: ‘ID’, label: ‘Idaho’}, {data:
‘IL’, label: ‘Illinois’}, {data: ‘IN’, label: ‘Indiana’}, {data: ‘KS’, label: ‘Kansas’}, {data: ‘KY’, label: ‘Kentucky’}, {data: ‘LA’, label: ‘Louisiana’}, {data: ‘MA’, label: ‘Massachusetts’}, {data: ‘MD’, label: ‘Maryland’}, {data:
‘ME’, label: ‘Maine’}, {data: ‘MI’, label: ‘Michigan’}, {data: ‘MN’, label: ‘Minnesota’}, {data: ‘MS’, label: ‘Mississippi’}, {data: ‘MO’, label: ‘Missouri’}, {data: ‘MT’, label: ‘Montana’}, {data: ‘NC’, label: ‘North Carolina’}, {data:
‘ND’, label: ‘North Dakota’}, {data: ‘NE’, label: ‘Nebraska’}, {data: ‘NH’, label: ‘New Hampshire’}, {data: ‘NJ’, label: ‘New Jersey’}, {data: ‘NM’, label: ‘New Mexico’}, {data: ‘NV’, label: ‘Nevada’}, {data: ‘NY’, label:
‘New York’}, {data: ‘OH’, label: ‘Ohio’}, {data: ‘OK’, label: ‘Oklahoma’}, {data: ‘OR’, label: ‘Oregon’}, {data: ‘PA’, label: ‘Pennsylvania’}, {data: ‘RI’, label: ‘Rhode Island’}, {data: ‘SC’, label: ‘South Carolina’}, {data:
‘SD’, label: ‘South Dakota’}, {data: ‘TN’, label: ‘Tennessee’}, {data: ‘TX’, label: ‘Texas’}, {data: ‘UT’, label: ‘Utah’}, {data: ‘VA’, label: ‘Virginia’}, {data: ‘VT’, label: ‘Vermont’}, {data: ‘WA’, label: ‘Washington’}, {data:
‘WI’, label: ‘Wisconsin’}, {data: ‘WV’, label: ‘West Virginia’}, {data: ‘WY’, label: ‘Wyoming’} );
March 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
And here’s a simple flash actionscript object with the abbreviations as keys and the names as values (works well for javascript, too):
var states:Object = {’AK’ : ‘Alaska’, ‘AL’ : ‘Alabama’, ‘AR’ : ‘Arkansas’, ‘AZ’ : ‘Arizona’, ‘CA’ : ‘California’, ‘CO’ : ‘Colorado’, ‘CT’ : ‘Connecticut’, ‘DE’ : ‘Delaware’, ‘DC’ : ‘District of Columbia’, ‘FL’ : ‘Florida’, ‘GA’ : ‘Georgia’, ‘HI’ : ‘Hawaii’, ‘IA’ : ‘Iowa’, ‘ID’ : ‘Idaho’, ‘IL’ : ‘Illinois’, ‘IN’ : ‘Indiana’, ‘KS’ : ‘Kansas’, ‘KY’ : ‘Kentucky’, ‘LA’ : ‘Louisiana’, ‘MA’ : ‘Massachusetts’, ‘MD’ : ‘Maryland’, ‘ME’ : ‘Maine’, ‘MI’ : ‘Michigan’, ‘MN’ : ‘Minnesota’, ‘MS’ : ‘Mississippi’, ‘MO’ : ‘Missouri’, ‘MT’ : ‘Montana’, ‘NC’ : ‘North Carolina’, ‘ND’ : ‘North Dakota’, ‘NE’ : ‘Nebraska’, ‘NH’ : ‘New Hampshire’, ‘NJ’ : ‘New Jersey’, ‘NM’ : ‘New Mexico’, ‘NV’ : ‘Nevada’, ‘NY’ : ‘New York’, ‘OH’ : ‘Ohio’, ‘OK’ : ‘Oklahoma’, ‘OR’ : ‘Oregon’, ‘PA’ : ‘Pennsylvania’, ‘RI’ : ‘Rhode Island’, ‘SC’ : ‘South Carolina’, ‘SD’ : ‘South Dakota’, ‘TN’ : ‘Tennessee’, ‘TX’ : ‘Texas’, ‘UT’ : ‘Utah’, ‘VA’ : ‘Virginia’, ‘VT’ : ‘Vermont’, ‘WA’ : ‘Washington’, ‘WI’ : ‘Wisconsin’, ‘WV’ : ‘West Virginia’, ‘WY’ : ‘Wyoming’};
September 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
You guys are awesome! Thanks.
November 1st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
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