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mary555

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Nov 9, 2005
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i have a form with many dependent drop down menus and text fields. I need it to work so the user has to enter the fields in order. is there a simply way to do this? Maybe to disable certain fields?
 
yes. disable them using CSS and then enable them using the onchange event of the previous field...

Code:
<form>
<select name="s1" onchange="this.form.s2.disabled=false;">
  ...
</select>
<select disabled name="s2" onchange="this.form.s3.disabled=false;">
  ...
</select>



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thank you. what about if i already have an onchange event for the select boxes (submitting the form/refresh). is there a way to have 2 events?
 
and i actually tried using that code and it didn't disable anything...
 
if you are submitting the form to query a database and populate the select boxes based on a value selected in the previous select box, then you should disable the select boxes by writing appropriate code on the server side, not using javascript.



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