dynamic form

[joshnelson]

Hello...I'm trying to create a form that will offer different options based on what a user selects from a dropdown...

choosing "web" will offer one set of options in a form....while choosing "ebay" would offer the user another set of options in a form.

I'm not a programmer by any means but tinker with html/php and I dont think i can do this with either one of those.....and best i can tell i should probably use javascript to complete this task. Any thoughts or pointers on how to approach this or any tutorials on doing what i'm looking to do would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Josh

 

[Ascalonian]

Are the drop downs static or dynamically filled?

If they are static, I would recommend for a "quick and easy" solution is to create all the selects on top of one another, and use:

 style="display:none"

on each one. Then when a user selects an option, hide all the drop downs instead of yours. In here, I would give each the same name, but different id's.

function hideAllButMe(strSelectId) {
    var dropdownArray = document.getElementsByName("dropdowns");
    var dropdown;
    for(var i = 0; i < dropdownArray.length; i++) {
        dropdown = dropdownArray[i];

        if(dropdown.id != strSelectId) {
            dropdown.style.display = "none";
        }else{
            dropdown.style.display = "";
        }
    }
}

Now with the above, you add the id of what you want to show through the onclick attribute.

<input type="button" value="web" onclick='hideAllButMe("webDropDown");' />

 

[joshnelson]

They are static....I'll give that a shot when things slow down again. I also found this that kind of does the same thing i want to do:

http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/examples/rental_form_source.html

Will try both. thanks again for the quick reply.

Josh

 

[j4606]

Have you checked the faq? There is a nice example of this functionality that you could edit to solve your problem.

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=6294

 

[joshnelson]

awesome. thank you both.