I have 3 or more different select boxes. How do I see if something

DRapper · Jan 28, 2004

Hello,

I have may have 1 or more select boxes that I need to check to see whats selected. How do I see what is selected for each select box? Please note the select box name are determined by how many the users selects. For example if the user selects 3. Three different select boxes will appear. The names of those select boxes will be isTicket1, isTicket2 and isTicket3.

The code below only works for the first select box named isTicket1.

document.pnrqueue.isTicket1.options[1].selected == 'yes';
alert(document.pnrqueue.isTicket1.options[1].selected);

Is there anyway to replace isTicket1 with a variable that holds the select box name?

I could have as many as 50 different select box names.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

DRapper

kaht · Jan 28, 2004

if these pulldown menus are the only pulldown menus on your screen you can do something like this:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script language=JavaScript>
function alertDropValues() {
   var x = document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;select&quot;);
   var str = '';
   for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
      str += x[i].options(x[i].selectedIndex).value;
      str += '  ';
   }
   alert(str);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name=blahForm>
<input type=button name=blahButton value='Click me' onclick='alertDropValues()'><br>
<select name=blahSelect1>
<option value=1>1</option>
<option value=2>2</option>
<option value=3>3</option>
</select>
<br>
<select name=blahSelect2>
<option value=1>1</option>
<option value=2>2</option>
<option value=3>3</option>
</select>
<br>
<select name=blahSelect3>
<option value=1>1</option>
<option value=2>2</option>
<option value=3>3</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>

thanks to jemminger and simonchristieis earlier post for the document.getElementsByTagName("select&quot

tip

-kaht

DRapper · Jan 28, 2004

kaht

Thanks for your help

DRapper

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I have 3 or more different select boxes. How do I see if something

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