SELECT OPTION: changing dynamically

[David Clark]

Hi
I have two list boxes( i.e. SELECT OPTION ), one is for STATE and
second is for CITY. If I change the STATE, CITY should also be updated
and of course it will be having respective cities
How to accomplish this ?
I need quick reply, plz
Thnaks

 

[Lee]

Philip said:

Easy. Get rid of the list boxes.

Instead, use text input boxes with meaningful names (e.g., "street", "city",
"state", "zip", etc.).

That way the user can fill your form in with a single click of the "Auto
Complete" button.

Ok, where's my "Auto Complete" button?

 

[Philip Ronan]

Philip said:

Ok, where's my "Auto Complete" button?

It's not my problem if you don't know how to work your goddamn browser.

 

[lallous]

Hello,

http://lgwm.org/ozone/dynatable.htm

This is a long example try to find your answer there.

Elias

 

[Fred Serry]

Hi
I have two list boxes( i.e. SELECT OPTION ), one is for STATE and
second is for CITY. If I change the STATE, CITY should also be updated
and of course it will be having respective cities
How to accomplish this ?
I need quick reply, plz
Thnaks

Hi,

http://www.serry.net/javascript/select.html

This is tested for ie4+, ns4, mozilla1.3 and opera7. btw: most of them don't
autocomplete.

Fred

 

[Philip Ronan]

Hi,

http://www.serry.net/javascript/select.html

This is tested for ie4+, ns4, mozilla1.3 and opera7. btw: most of them don't
autocomplete.

Fred

But what's the point? To get the OP's plan working you would have to create
a js file containing a list of every single city in every single state of
the US (well let's not bother about the rest of the world for the time
being) and force the user to download it every time they visit the page.

So the user will probably have to wait far longer for the page to download
than it would have taken just to type in their address in the first place.
Even if they can't find the Auto Complete button

Besides, the user will still have to enter the street address and phone
number, unless you're planning on including a few million pages out of the
phone book into this js file.

And how are text-to-speech browsers going to cope with this? Or browsers
with Javascript turned off?

....OK, I'll shut up now

 

[Fred Serry]

But what's the point? To get the OP's plan working you would have to create
a js file containing a list of every single city in every single state of
the US (well let's not bother about the rest of the world for the time
being) and force the user to download it every time they visit the page.

So the user will probably have to wait far longer for the page to download
than it would have taken just to type in their address in the first place.
Even if they can't find the Auto Complete button

Besides, the user will still have to enter the street address and phone
number, unless you're planning on including a few million pages out of the
phone book into this js file.

And how are text-to-speech browsers going to cope with this? Or browsers
with Javascript turned off?

...OK, I'll shut up now

Hi Philip,

First of all, OP never stated that his intent was to produce an exhoustive
list of all cities in the USA, nor that his page is used to enter personal
data. As far as I'm concerned he is making a list of bus destinations on the
Fiji Islands or a picker for coconut plantations in Denmark. Your guess to
those facts were just that: guesses. My reason to answer was that his actual
question was not.

Fred

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

a list of bus destinations on the Fiji Islands or

'Every town and village has a bus stop'

a picker for coconut plantations in Denmark.

That one is easy, the code is between the "---"'s;