Newbie needs help! Passing select values to hidden text field...

M

Matt

I know there have to be a million tutorials on this, but I can't seem to
find any of them. Using onsubmit, how do I pass the value from a select
menu to a hidden text field? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
I

Ivo

I know there have to be a million tutorials on this, but I can't seem to
find any of them. Using onsubmit, how do I pass the value from a select
menu to a hidden text field? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Click to expand...

Are you sure you don't want to do this in the serverside script? That is
always more reliable as users may have no javascript. Anyway, one of a
million possible approaches:

<script type="text/javascript">
function seltohid(el){
var sel=el.elements['sel'];
el.elements['hid'].value=sel[sel.selectedIndex].value;
return true;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="f" onsubmit="return seltohid(this)">
<input type="hidden" name="hid" value="">
<select name="sel">
<option value="jack">jack
<option value="john">john
<option value="mary">mary
</select>
<input type="submit">
</form>

HTH
Ivo
 

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