Cookies, I want to store a Users State of a Dropdown

ShawnDT · Mar 10, 2009

Good Morning Group,

I know this is going to sound easy but, I want to store a users search preference. In a Dropdown. We have search fields, Plan Number, Plan Name, Plan type. You can search on any one of those. Most users like to use one or the other. What I want to do is store their like. So when they return to the page it automatically defaults to their preference. This has got to be an ez one but I cannot figure it out. I am not sure what to use to accomplish this. I have looked at cookies not quite sure cookies would work. Would I need to do this in a session variable. Code below.
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
<label>
<select name="mnuSearchField" id="mnuSearchField">
<option SELECTED>Plan #</option>
<option>Company Name</option>
<option>Plan Type</option>
<option>Plan Consultant</option>
</select>
</label>
</form>
</body>
</html>

BillyRayPreachersSon · Mar 10, 2009

I'm guessing by the first line of your code that you use ASP. If this is the case, you'd be much better off doing this server-side, and picking up on the cookie server-side to output the right option selected when the page is delivered. So, I'd ask in the ASP forum about this.

Hope this helps,
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vicvirk · Mar 10, 2009

Easiest way I can think of doing this:

When they submit the form, get the selected index of the drop down and place it in a cookie

Code:

intVal= document.getElementById(mnuSearchField").selectedIndex;

When they load the page in your body's onLoad event, check to see if a cookie exists, if it does then fire this code:

Code:

document.getElementById("mnuSearchField").selectedIndex = <value of cookie>;

See here to learn how to write and read cookies, it's pretty straight forward:

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html

Of course using this method will assume you don't change the order of the drop down items.

TIP: trying googling the answer before posting, you'll find that more times than not someone else somewhere has had the same request and posted an answer online.
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BillyRayPreachersSon · Mar 10, 2009

Sorry - I shouldn't have said 'cookie' in my reply, as I don't want to assume that's the best way to do it in ASP (perhaps some sort of session storage might be better? *shrug*)

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Cookies, I want to store a Users State of a Dropdown

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