Dropdown Menu updating script...

[ScrewzLuse]

Alright, I know that was sort of a confusing subject but you'll understand, hopefully, when you're done reading this. Alright, I'm workin on a site and want to create a site where I select something from an item on the dropdown menu, and then a picture updates to have the selected item from the dropdown menu. Alright, let me give you an example. Say I have a computer site and you're selecting from the case from the drop down menu. You don't see anything at first but when you select the desired case, a picture of the case comes up in the center. Then you move down to the motherboard and select a motherboard. The original picture is switched with an updated picture which I've made that contains a motherhboard and case. etc etc.

I know, it was probably confusing to understand but hopefully you get what I'm trying to say. Is there a javascript that will allow me to do this or some other kind of script?

 

[starway]

I think this is the most simple way to do this:

<script>

if (document.images) {
img1=new Image();
img1.src=&quot;images/ibm.gif&quot;;
img2=new Image();
img2.src=&quot;images/dell.gif&quot;;
// ... the rest of images
}

function changeImage(imgNumb,imgFile)

if (document.images)
document.images

.src = eval(imgFile + '.src');
}

</script>

. . .

<img src=&quot;images/something.gif&quot; name=&quot;n1&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;>

<form name=&quot;form1&quot;>
<select name=&quot;comps&quot; onchange=&quot;changeImage(n1, this.value)&quot;>
<option selected></option>
<option value=&quot;ibm.gif&quot; >IBM</option>
<option value=&quot;dell.gif&quot;>Dell</option>
<option value=&quot;compaq.gif&quot;>Compaq</option>
<option value=&quot;micron.gif&quot;>Micron</option>
</select>
</form>

img1=new Image... is needed for all images preloading.
changeImage is an ordinary swap image function. It receives the value of selected option as an argument.


I wrote this &quot;on the fly&quot; and didn't test it, so it may require some debugging.
good luck