Form Question

[Mighty]

Hi,

I have a page that reads two columns from a database ( part number and part description ). It then displays a form with the part numbers in a list box and an empty text box beside it. What I would like to be able to do is automatically polulate the text box with the part description once the user selects a part number from the list. Can someone please advise me on how to do this.

 

[iza]

- you should have posted your question on the javascript forum where it would have been more appropriate ..
- now the jscript answer :
1 - to fire the function :
<select name=&quot;myselect&quot; onchange=&quot;populate()'>
....
2 - to associate number & description : when you build your select list do :
<option value=DESCRIPTION_VALUE>NUMBER_VALUE</option>
i don't now which language you're using to dynamically fill it in but you get the idea here
3 - the listbox should be named : (as well as the form itself)
<input type=text id=mytextbox ...>
4 - so now the function is :
function populate() {
document.formname.mytextbox.value=document.formname.myselect.options[document.formname.myselect.slectedIndex].value;
}

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this is ie 4+ only !!!!!! maybe ns6+ ....
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