display dropdown selection in another area of same form

What's the best way to display the selection of my dropdown select list in another region of the same form.
I'm populating the list from a mysql database using the MySQLi Server Behaviors.

Here's the code for the dropdown list:

<select name="RecurType" onchange="toggleRecurOn(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);">
                  <?php
while(!$RecurType->atEnd()) {
?>
                  <option value="<?php echo($RecurType->getColumnVal("value")); ?>" selected="selected"><?php echo($RecurType->getColumnVal("text")); ?></option>
                  <?php
  $RecurType->moveNext();
}
$RecurType->moveFirst(); //return RS to first record
?>
                </select>

Completely unrelated, but there's no option for MySQLi Server Behaviors in the "Ask A Question" choices for posting a new thread.

add an ID to the select tag and another onchange function:

<select name="RecurType" id="RecurType" onchange="toggleRecurOn(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);showSelection();">

add a span to show the selection:

<span id="selectionSpan"></span>

define the onchange event:

<script type="text/javascript">
function showSelection() {
	var theList = document.getElementById("RecurType");
	var theSelection = theList.options[theList.selectedIndex].value;
	var theSelectionSpan = document.getElementById("selectionSpan");
	theSelectionSpan.innerHTML = "you Slected: "+theSelection+"";
}
</script>

Is there anyway to have it display whatever the dropdown has selected by default when the page loads?

Right now the span doesn't display anything when the page first opens, even though there is already a choice selected in the dropdown list. Once I change the selection in the dropdown the span displays the text (I'm assuming because of the onchange function).

no, you should add an empty option to force a selection:
<option value="">Make A Selection</option>

no i did not update anything else.

Ok. Thank you!