access both value and text in dropdown list

[lin73]

Hi

I have a dropdown list with names and id's like this..

<select name="SelectCust" class="LicenseFieldLong">
<option value="0">Select Customer</option>
<option value="1">Name 1</option>
<option value="2">Name 2</option>
</select>

I know I get the value by Request.Form("SelectCust")
But how do I get the text?

Regards

 

[ggriffit]

The text is not passed in the Request, if the text is stored in the DB you can do a SQL lookup to get it, otherwise you can add some additional form fields and use Javascript on the client side to populate the text into these fields on Submit of the form.

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/

 

[lin73]

Ok, thanks for your help!

 

[DotNetGnat]

or you can also put the text in the value: something like this:

<select name="SelectCust" class="LicenseFieldLong">
<option value="0$Select Customer">Select Customer</option>
<option value="1$Name 1">Name 1</option>
<option value="2$Name 2">Name 2</option>
</select>

I have just used the symbol $ to separate the value and text fields...

then you can retrieve the value and text as follows:

dim myarray = Split(request.form("SelectCust"),"$")

response.write "the value is: " & myaaray(0)
response.write "the text is: " & myaaray(1)

-DNG