RE: FN-FORUM: Javascript Challenge

date posted 8th December 2005 11:53

Referring you to one of the one's I'd done earlier: www.medlifeholidays.com,
this sets a cookie to remember the dropdown positions on reload. When the
page loads, it checks to see if the cookie exists. If it is, it sets the
position of the first dropdown and then independently fires the same
function that manually changing the first dropdown would have done.

Another one that does the same is www.mytravel.com but that might have been
modified by now as it's a year since I did that one. They're both a bit of
a beast if you look at the code but essentially they're the same as your
example.

However, "if" you're using .NET, it should remember the positions anyway (I
think).

HTH

Craig

-----Original Message-----

Morning All,

A message was posted a while ago about a script that was needed to
populate a second drop down box dependant on the option selected in
the first.

An excellent tutorial for this can be found here:

http://www.plus2net.com/javascript_tutorial/dropdown-list.php

The problem I am facing is that although this works fine, I am using
it as part of a search box, which when submitted reloads the same page
and displays the results below. For this reason, I would like the
options that were selected in both drop downs to still be selected
when the form is submitted.
Because of how the code isdone, (and my serious lack of javascript
knowledge!) I just can't see how this can be done.

For those experienced javascripters out there, if you could have a
look at the code, and give me some idea, I would really apprciate it!

D