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It would be helpful to eliminate the -select- option when there is only one value to be selected.  We have only 1 contribution type and every entry of a new contribution requires extra mouse clicks just to choose the only value available.  If the -select- were removed and only "Donation" showed in the box, no clicks would be involved.  Any thoughts on a way around this would be appreciated!

Thanks - that's a good workaround, but I'm having some trouble figuring out how to implement it.  I get this from the actual form itself (view source):

<form  action="/drupal/index.php?q=civicrm/contribute/add" method="post" name="Contribution" id="Contribution" enctype="multipart/form-data" >

and the specific data element:

<select onchange="buildCustomData( 'Contribution', this.value );" name="contribution_type_id" id="contribution_type_id" class="form-select required">
   <option value="">- select -</option>
   <option value="1">Donation</option>
</select>

Looking for an example, I found this code that you supplied in response to another question:
   if ($formName == "CRM_Contact_Form_Contact" &&
            $form->elementExists( 'external_identifier' ) ) {
      $elem = $form->getElement('external_identifier');
      $elem->freeze();
   }

So it looks to me like my form name is just "Contribution" and the element is "contribution_type_id".  Am I on the right track?  Now I need to be able to test if there is only one value for the select - not sure how to do that.  Any other suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks, lobo!  One more thought on elements like contribution_type - if you could specify a default value like you can for custom fields, that would make the default value show as the top choice in the select box even if there is only 1 value and no mouse clicks would be required to make that selection.  This could also be handy even if there were multiple values if most of the contributions to an organization were of 1 type.