populated comboboxes on client side from asp code

[Jeet2004]

Hi,
here is what i need to do.
i have three comboboxes on an asp page where selection in first box determines list of items to be shown in second combobox and selection in first and second combobox determines things to be shown in third combobox.

The list of items need to be populated from the database.
so i need help to
1.populated the javascript array from asp code
2.how can i make client side population of comboboxes whenever the selection of one of the boxes changes without posting the page.

Any code examples would be greately appreciated.

Thanks

 

[DotNetGnat]

there are 3 examples in the FAQ section on this topic...

check them out...

-DNG

 

[YannL]

Hi,

Read this cool article about javascript and asp remote scripting:

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/ASP/Remote-Scripting-With-JavaScript-and-ASP/

With it you don't need to:
- reload your page to have your combos populated
- create javascript arrays

Cheers

 

[mwolf00]

Jeet - Also, please ask you question in only one forum. Something like this where 2 languages are used (ASP and JavaScript) is usually going to be answered better in the ASP forum since most ASP Coders also use JavaScript while only some JavaScript coders use ASP...

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