PostBack(Object) from select option

[mike10101]

Hi,

here is the javascript i'm using,

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function PostBack(Object)
{document.form1.yourTextField.value=Object.value}
//-->
</script>

here is the option list,

<select name="frm_agency" onClick="PostBack(this)">
<option value="1">OPTION1</option>
</select>


What I want to do is return the Option content ie 'OPTION1' into document.form1.yourTextField and not the value, how can I do this? any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[cLFlaVA]

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function PostBack(o) {
    document.forms['form1'].elements['yourTextField'].value=o.innerText;
}
//-->
</script>

*cLFlaVA
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[mike10101]

Thanks for the quick response,

how can I do it so it only returns the selected option content and not all the options

 

[cLFlaVA]

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function PostBack(o) {
    var theVal = o.options[o.selectedIndex].innerText;
    document.forms['form1'].elements['yourTextField'].value=theVal;
}
//-->
</script>

*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]your mom goes to college[/tt]
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

 

[mike10101]

nice one!!! that would have taken me about 2 years to have worked out... do you know of any good books so I can learn this stuff myself.

 

[cLFlaVA]

[purple]you're welcome[/purple]

check out

http://www.w3schools.com/

i've learned everything from the web, never really touched a book.

*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]your mom goes to college[/tt]
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Note: innerText is not cross-browser - it appears not to work in NN or FF.

You could use .innerHTML (which works in most browsers even though it's not part of any standard, AFAIK), or ".firstChild.nodeValue" (assuming a text node already exists).

Hope this helps,
Dan

[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]