Reflecting the count of some fields

[programmher]

I have a page that includes seven color fields (Color1, Color2, etc.).

I have another field that should reflect the total colors chosen (ex - user selectd 3 colors, the number 3 appears in the Total_Selected_Colors field).

I have used a parsefloat and parseint to dynamically add totals associated with fields; but, I have never attempted to COUNT the number of selected fields and reflect this total on the onchange event.

Can anyone show me how to do this?

 

[jaredn]

just check each field to see if it has an accepted value and increment a counter variable of some sort... jared@aauser.com

 

[programmher]

JaredN,

Do you have an example of how I would do this?

 

[jaredn]

Are you using select boxes or text boxes? jared@aauser.com

 

[programmher]

I am using select boxes with option variables.

 

[jaredn]

onchange of the selectboxes call a function that checks each one to see if it has a certain value (or that it isn't just a "" or whatever you make the default value). then do something like count++. in the onchange handler, be sure to reset count to 0 each time... jared@aauser.com

 

[programmher]

JaredN,

Thanks for the tip. Being a neophyte to this, I will incorporate your instructions once I locate an example from one of the linked pages.

 

[jaredn]

check out

http://webmonkey.com/

has some good tutorials for beginning scripters jared@aauser.com