Get value of select box without submitting form

[wheeler08]

I don't know if this is trickier than it sounds:

I have a page that populates a select box.

I want to be able to click a text link that loads another page and grabs the value of whatever is in the select box so I can use it on the next page.

The trick is I do NOT want to use a form tag.

I know there is a very complex way of doing this through code, but is there an easy way of doing this?

[devinemke]

Originally posted by wheeler08
The trick is I do NOT want to use a form tag.

why not?

This cannot be done with PHP since the form would have to be submitted to the server for PHP to grab the form data. I suppose you could do this using javascript by using document.write() to append the select box selection to the URL string of the link but that is beyond the scope of this forum.