brady.k — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:42:14 +0000

Apparently, I'm not getting email notifications like I should be.

Anyways, let me play around with that later tonight, and I'll get back to you.

Thanks

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:04:58 +0000

You need to access the selected option like this:

type_select = document.getElementById('type');
type_val = type_select.options[type_select.selectedIndex].value;

brady.k — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:25:20 +0000

Ok, so I'm a little confused on how "onChange" works with 'select'... I got a few different examples when I searched for it.

What I've got, that seems to make sense is:

HTML

	<select name="type" id="type" onChange="type()">
		<option value="" id="blankLoad"></option>
		<option value="Hosting">Hosting</option>
		<option value="Services">Services</option>
		<option value="Products">Products</option>
	</select>

function type() {
	type_val = document.getElementById('type').value;
	
	if (type_val == 'Hosting') {
		type_id = 1;
	} else if (type_val == 'Services') {
		type_id = 2;
	} else if (type_val == 'Products') {
		type_id = 3;
	} else if (type_val == 'mSoL') {
		type_id = 9;
	}
	
	document.getElementById(type_id).style.display = "block";
	document.getElementById(type_id).style.visibility = "visible";

        ....
}

But that doesn't work. I tried different permutations and things, but I'm not even sure if I'm going in the right direction.

Any ideas?

Thanks again

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:08:25 +0000

I'm using Iceweasel 2.0 -- almost exactly the same as Firefox 2.0 -- on GNU/Linux. Maybe that makes a difference.

brady.k — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:03:18 +0000

Oh. That's weird because it works for me in FF, like I said...

I'll try 'onChange'. I didn't know that existed.

I'll repost in a while.

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:58:40 +0000

Fails in Firefox and Konqueror too. Not sure why it works for you.

You shouldn't be using [incode]onclick[/incode] here anyway. Use [incode]onchange[/incode] for the [incode]select[/incode] tag. It has the added advantages of also working if the user uses a keyboard rather than the mouse, and not running the update code if they click but don't change the selection.