drop down menu onChange submit possibilites?

[Ewan]

I am using a piece of javascript which changes the page it's in according to what selection is made from a drop down menu.

all is fine, but i'd like it so that all the information that was in all the fields to still be there after it has changed.

i modified the script to create a url for the browser to point to, the thing is certain characters(' # &quot trip up the broweser, and also IE doesn't like it if there is too much text in some fields.

What i'm trying to do is execute a form submission using the drop down menu, so that the informtaion in the form is carried over to the new version of itself.

another complication is that i need the value of the drop down menu for another form, and have been unable to embed one form within another - is this just not possible?

i hope that's clear enough

any help would be very much appreciated.

thank you

Ewan Gibb

 

[grega]

Cookies?

Greg.

 

[Ewan]

Cookies? It's an option i was hoping could be avoided. I'll look into it tho' cheers

Ewan

 

[iza]

if you don't use cookies you'll have to carry the parameters on every page (either in hidden fields or in the url params)
or maybe you could use a frame that remains static for the drop down ??

 

[Ewan]

How would i pass the values to the next page using hidden fields with the drop down as the "submitter"?

cheers

 

[iza]

if the drop down is the submitter then you have its value and don't need no hidden field !! i think i didn't understand EXACTLY what your problem was :-(

anyway if you want to fill a hidden field before submitting, it's not very elegant but you can do it in the validation function (the one that is called with the onsubmit)

function validate () {
if (everything_is_fine) {
the_form.the_hidden_field.value=any_value
return true
}
return false
}

(this can be used for filling a hidden field in a hidden frame tho : you can change everything everywhere, until you leave the hidden frame untouched the values remain accessibles)

 

[Ewan]

Cheers everyone. I've found a neat way of doing it all with cookies. thank you again.

Ewan