[RESOLVED] passing value from a select list

cneeds

I have this select list of my clients and I want to pass the value of any client clicked on in the list to another page. This is my code. What am I doing wrong?

<td rowspan=22 valign=top><select name="client_select_list" size=36 
onclick="location.href='BDCmaintAADclients.php?default_client_ID=client_select_list.value'")>

Thanks

Chris

Krik

You will want to read up on the Location Object and the DOM Select Object

And you probably will want to use the onchange event. Otherwise when they click to change it they will be sent to the currently selected option.

<td rowspan=22 valign=top>
    <select name="client_select_list" size=36
onchange="window.location.assign('BDCmaintAADclients.php?default_client_ID='+this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">

As a side note since this is javascript question it should probably have been in the Client Side Technologies forum

cneeds

Thank you Krik (I didn't know this was a Java question!!)

Krik;10964126 wrote:
And you probably will want to use the onchange event. Otherwise when they click to change it they will be sent to the currently selected option.

When they click on a client in the list they want to do the next action (like amend the client's data).

Chris

cneeds

Hi Krik

Thank you, its working (so far!).

I was close with my original code but I knew it was an overkill:

onclick="location.href='BDCmaintAADclients.php?default_client_ID=(this.form.client_select_list.options[this.form.client_select_list.selectedIndex].value)'"

It works with both window.location.assign and location.href though the latter appears to take a bit longer. Is that possible?

The form that I want to populate with the clicked client's data is on the same page (BDCmaintAADclients.php) as the list. How can I populate it without having to reload the page? Something about the <DIV> tag and and href blah blah internal?

Chris

cneeds

Hi Krik

This also works

<select name="client_select_list" size=36 onclick="window.location.assign('BDCmaintAADclients.php?default_client_ID='+this.value)">

Neat huh? Is there anything intrinsically wrong with it?

Chris

Krik

It works with both window.location.assign and location.href though the latter appears to take a bit longer. Is that possible?

Yes, its possible. There is several such examples in PHP of one technique taking longer than another even though the end result is the same.

Is there anything intrinsically wrong with it?

Have you tested it will multiple <options>? Also test it in all the browsers. With each browser using a different javascript engine you never know what may work in one may not in the others. And the worst thing is, if you tested in IE its a real good chance it will not work in any other browser.