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Beginners question about drop down boxes

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dobi

dobi

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Feb 18, 2003
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I'm a newly appointed webmaster with no experience in it and trying to get the basics so I have two questions:
1. Anyone have recommendations for books or learning tools (so I don't have to keep asking these beginner questions)

2. I am trying to create a drop down box to act as a TOC for something further down in the same file. I can create the box and options and I think that I have everything else right but when I try and follow the link, I get a debug scripting error that says Error: Permission Denied. Here is what I have in html:

<form>
<select name=demo1 size=&quot;1&quot;
onchange=&quot;location.href=(form.demo1.options[form.demo1.selectedIndex].value)&quot;
align=&quot;center&quot;>

style=&quot;margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0&quot;
align=&quot;center&quot;
style=&quot;color:navy&quot;
style=&quot;border:eek:utset&quot;
style=&quot;font-size: 10&quot;
style=&quot;background:#ffffff&quot;>
<option value=<a href=&quot;#Chapter 2&quot;>Chapter 2</option>
<option value=<a href=&quot;#Chapter 3&quot;>Chapter 3</option>
<select>
<form>


I am using this as experimentation and do not have it on our web server. It is on a desktop that has front page 2000 installed. It is a protected page on our web server so I am curious to see if that transferred somehow but than I am not sure.

Thanks in advance,
Steve
 
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dobi, try this code...

<html>
<head>
</head>

<body>
<form name=&quot;form&quot;>
<select name=demo1 size=&quot;1&quot; onchange=&quot;location.href=(form.demo1.options[form.demo1.selectedIndex].value)&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;>
<option value=&quot;&quot;>Choose One</option>
<option value=&quot;#Chapter 2&quot;>Chapter 2</option>
<option value=&quot;#Chapter 3&quot;>Chapter 3</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>


All start tage must have a close tag...like <form></form> and <option></option>, look at your code and look at mine, see the difference??
For some beginning HTML help go to:

Forget the Nobel Peace prize, I just want to take over the world!! [hammer]
 
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GUJUmOdel,

so the </select> close the tag for the <select name....> and the </form> close the tag for <form name=&quot;form> right? Also in my line where I put <option value=<a href=&quot;#chapter 2&quot;>Chapter 2 </option> and you have omitted the a href, is that if it is a link to another webpage? Just curious.

Thanks for the help. It works.

Dobi
 
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dobi, that's correct...
In HTML ever opening tag needs a closing tag, <html></html>, <a>, </a>, <form></form>, etc...
In a <select> you can just point the URL in the value field, like what I did, just replace what I put with any other URL and it'll work just fine...
For more help, look into
Forget the Nobel Peace prize, I just want to take over the world!! [hammer]
 
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> you have omitted the a href, is that if it is a link to another webpage? Just curious.

Your <select> tag contains this bit of script:

onchange=&quot;location.href=(form.demo1.options[form.demo1.selectedIndex].value)&quot;

What this means (more or less) is &quot;Whenever the selected value of this list changes, change the current screen's address to the value of the selected option&quot;. So the values you give each <option> should be the target URLs, not full-blown hyperlink tags.


> Anyone have recommendations for books or learning tools?

It's difficult to make solid recommendations as much depends on your background and the approach that you find most useful. Personally I favour the &quot;animal&quot; books by O'Reilly ( ), they're unbeatable (IMO) for people with a technical background, but perhaps a little short on hand-holding for the less propeller-headed. Go to a big bookshop and take some time leafing through the available titles till you find one that &quot;speaks your language&quot; - then go home and buy it on Amazon...

As for sites, the same strictures apply - though at least you don't have to spend any money to try them! There are too many to list (the partners of this site are a good place to start), I find new ones all the time - and still learn new things from them. A recent discovery is which has a nice selection of articles at all levels. Just get surfing!

-- Chris Hunt
Extra Connections Ltd
 
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