[ic] updating drop down select menu box when value is in prev ious select box

Thanh Luong interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue Dec 31 15:26:01 2002


--- Dennis Chen <dchen@technicacorp.com> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I am not searching the right words in the archives, but I
> cant
> > seem to find any help on this question.
> > 
> > What I have is multiple select boxes on a search page, Make, 
> > Model, and
> > Year.
> > I want to be able to select lets say "Honda" under the "make" 
> > then have
> > the Model select box appear with all options that matches 
> > "Honda". I am
> > trying to use something similar to onChange="this.form.submit()"
> but
> > that doesnt work because I don't I have a search page specified.
> and I
> > dont know anything about javascript.
> > This is what I have so far, which is probably far from the
> solution.
> 
> I was looking into this before for something else but for what you
> want to
> do, you'll have to load all the values into the javascript, and so if
> you
> want to load your values from the database, you cannot have a dynamic
> select
> box.  You would need to change that page/file everytime you have to
> add/delete your items.
> 
Thanks Dennis, although not the answer I wanted to hear, maybe there
will be some way to do this easily with a future version of IC.
Thanks again,
Tom

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