Re: Select an Array, to Display

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:38:52 GMT, mick white <mick@mickweb.com> wrote:

>Tyrone Slothrop wrote:
>
>> It is a familiar story. It works in Firefox, but not in IE.
>>
>> I want to dynamically populate a select box with an array of values
>> based upon the value selected from another select. The arrays are
>> defined when the page is loaded.
>>
>> Assuming that the arrays are name a, b. and c:
>>
>> <select name="someArray">
>> <option onclick="selArr(a);" value="a">A</option>
>> <option onclick="selArr(b);" value="b">B</option>
>> <option onclick="selArr(c);" value="c">C</option>
>> </select>
>>
>> function selArr(whichArr) {
>> var optStr;
>> var cnt = whichArr.length;
>> for (var i=0; i<cnt; i++) {
>
>
>function selArr(whichArr){
>var cnt = whichArr.length,
>sel=document.forms[0].sel2.options,sel.length=0,i;
>for(i=0;i<cnt;i++){
>sel[i]=new Option(whichArr[i],whichArr[i])
>}
>}
>
> >select name="someArray" onchge="selArr[this.value);">
>
> > this.value is treated not as the defined array but as a var value, as
> > if is enclosed by quotes.
> >
> > Any ideas how to get around this?
>
>onchange="selArr(window[this[this.selectedindex].value]);
>// provided the arrays are global in scope
>
>[...]
>Mick

Thanks Mick!

I figured out how to do a lot of this on my own, though the onChange
part looks like what I need to make it completely dynamic.

I have been coding in PHP, C and Perl for years but JavaScript still
makes me nuts at times. ;-)

Thanks again!
Received on Tue Feb 7 21:29:20 2006