enter image description hereI want to pass the option value to another page. For this purpose I have some options. Besides there is an "other" option where an input field is hidden. My javascript code works i.e; selection of "others" appear the desired text input. But while passing the value (submitting) the "other" option (input field) pass the value but not the regular option.
function CheckColors(val) {
var element = document.getElementById('color_change');
if (val == 'pick a color' || val == 'others')
element.style.display = 'block';
else
element.style.display = 'none';
}
<form action="action_dropdown.php" method="post">
<select name="color" onchange='CheckColors(this.value);'>
<option>pick a color</option>
<option value="red">RED</option>
<option value="blue">BLUE</option>
<option value="others">others</option>
</select>
<input type="text" name="color" id="color_change" style='display:none;' />
<input value="calculation" type="submit">
</form>
$myVariable = $_POST["color"];
echo $myVariable;
I expect my output would be red/ blue/ (while selecting any of them).
Again I want my output would be yellow (when I choose "ohters" and input "yellow".)
Being a novice I Hope your cordial cooperation.
You need to rename your input element by any other as below:
<form action="action_dropdown.php" method="post">
<select name="color" onchange='CheckColors(this.value);'>
<option>pick a color</option>
<option value="red">RED</option>
<option value="blue">BLUE</option>
<option value="others">others</option>
</select>
<input type="text" name="othercolor" id="color_change" style='display:none;' />
<input value="calculation" type="submit">
</form>
And when your form is submitted, you need to check whether othercolor is set or not. Thus you can get color value like below:
$selectedColor = ($_POST['color'] == "others" ) ? $_POST['othercolor']: $_POST['color'];
Thus, you will be able to access both select and input values. Hope it helps you!
I found this code on another entry on here which works fine except the text field overwrites with nothing if a colour is selected form the select box so nothing is sent in the POST. Can anyone help?
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function CheckColors(val){
var element=document.getElementById('color');
if(val=='pick a color'||val=='others')
element.style.display='block';
else
element.style.display='none';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<select name="color" onchange='CheckColors(this.value);'>
<option>pick a color</option>
<option value="red">RED</option>
<option value="blue">BLUE</option>
<option value="others">others</option>
</select>
<input type="text" name="color" id="color" style='display:none;'/>
</body>
</html>
Thanks,
John
It looks like you need to set the selected color to the text box
in the Javascript section, change this:
if(val=='pick a color'||val=='others'){ //Always use curly brackets
element.style.display='';
element.value = '';
}
else {
element.style.display='none';
element.value = val;
}
Here's my code:
<html>
<head>
<script>
function changeDate(option) {
var selectList = document.getElementById("catProdAttributeItem");
if (option == 0) {
selectList.selectedIndex++;
} else if (option == 1 && selectList.selectedIndex > 0) {
selectList.selectedIndex--;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<img src="img1.jpg" onclick="changeDate(0)">
<img src="img2.jpg" onclick="changeDate(1)">
<select id="pa_colour" name="attribute_pa_colour">
<option value="">Choose an option…</option>
<option value="black" class="active">Black</option>
<option value="blue" class="active">Blue</option>
<option value="red" class="active">Red</option>
<option value="white" class="active">White</option>
</select>
<div id="catProdAttributeItem">
<select>
<option id="1">One</option>
<option id="2">Two</option>
<option id="3">three</option>
<option id="4">Four</option>
</select>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In this code what I want to do is when the user clicks an image, the select option value will change.
If the <select id="list"> select has an id it will work fine, but in my case, the select option has no id, but before the select there is a class "catProdAttributeItem".
How do I make it work with document.getElementById and select option?
Select element is the child of Div, so you need to access the child element. For that,use following :
var selectList = document.getElementById("catProdAttributeItem").children[0];
Here is the working demo : http://jsfiddle.net/spdX3/
Since the select element is within the catProdAttributeItem div, you can select it using the childNodes property
var selectList = document.getElementById("catProdAttributeItem").childNodes[0];
Rest of the code should work as it is.
Suposse user hits SPACE in a text -field. I want to check the value in the select -box. I use input.addEventListener('keydown', function(e)... to track the SPACE-hitting-point but how can I get the value of the select block <select id='topic'><option value="hello"></option> ...</section>?
How can you stdout the value of the selected index? Cannot understand why not below.
var el = document.getElementById("topic");
var topicValue = el.options[el.selectedIndex].value;
// PROBLEM: Won't do anything (despite inside <script> -tags)
window.alert(topicValue);
where the topic is the select <select id="topic"[^>]*>[^<]*</select>.
There any many events you can look at.
This has a list of them all
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_select.asp
onkeydown and onmousedown will alert you prior to the onchange (user pressing enter) event
The events work in the select, not to options but just conditional to the script.
<html>
<body>
<script>
function alertMe(option){
if(option == "saab"){
window.alert("you clicked saab in selec!");
document.getElementById("txt").value='saab!';
}
}
</script>
<select onChange="alertMe(this.value);">
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="m"> Mercedes</option>
<option>Audi</option>
</select>
<input type="text" id="txt" value="change me"></input>
</body>
</html>
[Answers to the updated]
You can access the select with document.getElementById('topic').options.selectedIndex or mySelect.options[selectedIndex].value (does not work with me). And apparently you could create a form to which you could refer by document.forms['topic'].elements[id] but not sure about this one. More.
#Kosh that is irritating! Just do a dictionary = {0:"topic", 1:"hello",...,n:"topic_{n}"} and then use the getElementById('topic').selectedId as a key and forget the values. Not solved but rounded.
[Update] I think I solved it, just el.value, no selectedIndex needed:
<html>
<body>
<script>
function printSelectValue()
{
var el = document.getElementById("selectOne");
alert(el.value);
}
</script>
<select id="selectOne" onChange="printSelectValue()">
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="m"> Mercedes</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
How to use onClick() or onSelect() with option tag? Below is my code in which I tried to implement that, but it is not working as expected.
Note: where listCustomer domain object list getting in JSP page.
<td align="right">
<select name="singleSelect" ">
<c:forEach var="Customer" items="${listCustomer}" >
<option value="" onClick="javascript:onSelect(this);> <c:out value="${Customer}" /></option>
</c:forEach>
</select>
</td>
How do I modify it to detect that an option is selected?
Neither the onSelect() nor onClick() events are supported by the <option> tag. The former refers to selecting text (i.e. by clicking + dragging across a text field) so can only be used with the <text> and <textarea> tags. The onClick() event can be used with <select> tags - however, you probably are looking for functionality where it would be best to use the onChange() event, not onClick().
Furthermore, by the look of your <c:...> tags, you are also trying to use JSP syntax in a plain HTML document. That's just... incorrect.
In response to your comment to this answer - I can barely understand it. However, it sounds like what you want to do is get the value of the <option> tag that the user has just selected whenever they select one. In that case, you want to have something like:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeFunc() {
var selectBox = document.getElementById("selectBox");
var selectedValue = selectBox.options[selectBox.selectedIndex].value;
alert(selectedValue);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<select id="selectBox" onchange="changeFunc();">
<option value="1">Option #1</option>
<option value="2">Option #2</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
Even more simplified: You can pass the value attribute directly!
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeFunc(i) {
alert(i);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<select id="selectBox" onchange="changeFunc(value);">
<option value="1">Option #1</option>
<option value="2">Option #2</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
The alert will either return 1 or 2.
The answer you gave above works but it is confusing because you have used two names twice and you have an unnecessary line of code. you are doing a process that is not necessary.
it's a good idea when debugging code to get pen and paper and draw little boxes to represent memory spaces (i.e variables being stored) and then to draw arrows to indicate when a variable goes into a little box and when it comes out, if it gets overwritten or is a copy made etc.
if you do this with the code below you will see that
var selectBox = document.getElementById("selectBox");
gets put in a box and stays there you don't do anything with it afterwards.
and
var selectBox = document.getElementById("selectBox");
is hard to debug and is confusing when you have a select id of selectBox for the options list . ---- which selectBox do you want to manipulate / query / etc is it the local var selectBox that will disappear or is it the selectBox id you have assigned to the select tag
your code works until you add to it or modify it then you can easily loose track and get all mixed up
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeFunc() {
var selectBox = document.getElementById("selectBox");
var selectedValue = selectBox.options[selectBox.selectedIndex].value;
alert(selectedValue);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<select id="selectBox" onchange="changeFunc();">
<option value="1">Option #1</option>
<option value="2">Option #2</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
a leaner way that works also is:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeFunc() {
var selectedValue = selectBox.options[selectBox.selectedIndex].value;
alert(selectedValue);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<select id="selectBox" onchange="changeFunc();">
<option value="1">Option #1</option>
<option value="2">Option #2</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
and it's a good idea to use descriptive names that match the program and task you are working on am currently writing a similar program to accept and process postcodes using your code and modifying it with descriptive names the object is to make computer language as close to natural language as possible.
<script type="text/javascript">
function Mapit(){
var actualPostcode=getPostcodes.options[getPostcodes.selectedIndex].value;
alert(actualPostcode);
// alert is for debugging only next we go on to process and do something
// in this developing program it will placing markers on a map
}
</script>
<select id="getPostcodes" onchange="Mapit();">
<option>London North Inner</option>
<option>N1</option>
<option>London North Outer</option>
<option>N2</option>
<option>N3</option>
<option>N4</option>
// a lot more options follow
// with text in options to divide into areas and nothing will happen
// if visitor clicks on the text function Mapit() will ignore
// all clicks on the divider text inserted into option boxes
</select>
in this example de select tag is named as: aula_clase_cb
<select class="form-control" id="aula_clase_cb" >
</select>
document.getElementById("aula_clase_cb").onchange = function(e){
id = document.getElementById('aula_clase_cb').value;
alert("id: "+id);
};
<div class="form-group">
<script type="text/javascript">
function activa(){
if(v==0)
document.formulario.vr_negativo.disabled = true;
else if(v==1)
document.formulario.vr_negativo.disabled = true;
else if(v==2)
document.formulario.vr_negativo.disabled = true;
else if(v==3)
document.formulario.vr_negativo.disabled = true;
else if(v==4)
document.formulario.vr_negativo.disabled = true;
else if(v==5)
document.formulario.vr_negativo.disabled = true;
else if(v==6)
document.formulario.vr_negativo.disabled = false;}
</script>
<label>¿Qué tipo de vehículo está buscando?</label>
<form name="formulario" id="formulario">
<select name="lista" id="lista" onclick="activa(this.value)">
<option value="0">Vehiculo para la familia</option>
<option value="1">Vehiculo para el trabajo</option>
<option value="2">Camioneta Familiar</option>
<option value="3">Camioneta de Carga</option>
<option value="4">Vehiculo servicio Publico</option>
<option value="5">Vehiculo servicio Privado</option>
<option value="6">Otro</option>
</select>
<br />
<input type="text" id="form vr_negativo" class="form-control input-xlarge" name="vr_negativo"/>
</form>
</div>
You can change selection in the function
window.onload = function () {
var selectBox = document.getElementById("selectBox");
selectBox.addEventListener('change', changeFunc);
function changeFunc() {
alert(this.value);
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Selection</title>
</head>
<body>
<select id="selectBox" onChange="changeFunc();">
<option> select</option>
<option value="1">Option #1</option>
<option value="2">Option #2</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Cars</title>
</head>
<body >
<h1>Cars</h1>
<p>Name </p>
<select id="selectBox" onchange="myFunction(value);">
<option value="volvo" >Volvo</option>
<option value="saab" >Saab</option>
<option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option>
</select>
<p id="result"> Price : </p>
<script>
function myFunction($value)
{
if($value=="volvo")
{document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = "30L";}
else if($value=="saab")
{document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = "40L";}
else if($value=="mercedes")
{document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = "50L";}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>```
Other option, for similar example but with anidated selects, think that you have two select, the name of the first is "ea_pub_dest" and the name of the second is "ea_pub_dest_2", ok, now take the event click of the first and display the second.
<script>
function test()
{
value = document.getElementById("ea_pub_dest").value;
if ( valor == "value_1" )
document.getElementById("ea_pub_dest_nivel").style.display = "block";
}
</script>
Change onClick() from with onChange() in the . You can send the option value to a javascript function.
<select id="selector" onChange="doSomething(document.getElementById(this).options[document.getElementById(this).selectedIndex].value);">
<option value="option1"> Option1 </option>
<option value="option2"> Option2 </option>
<option value="optionN"> OptionN </option>
</select>
If you need to change the value of another field, you can use this:
<input type="hidden" id="mainvalue" name="mainvalue" value="0">
<select onChange="document.getElementById('mainvalue').value = this.value;">
<option value="0">option 1</option>
<option value="1">option 2</option>
</select>
example dom onchange usage:
<select name="app_id" onchange="onAppSelection(this);">
<option name="1" value="1">space.ecoins.beta.v3</option>
<option name="2" value="2">fun.rotator.beta.v1</option>
<option name="3" value="3">fun.impactor.beta.v1</option>
<option name="4" value="4">fun.colorotator.beta.v1</option>
<option name="5" value="5">fun.rotator.v1</option>
<option name="6" value="6">fun.impactor.v1</option>
<option name="7" value="7">fun.colorotator.v1</option>
<option name="8" value="8">fun.deluxetor.v1</option>
<option name="9" value="9">fun.winterotator.v1</option>
<option name="10" value="10">fun.eastertor.v1</option>
<option name="11" value="11">info.locatizator.v3</option>
<option name="12" value="12">market.apks.ecoins.v2</option>
<option name="13" value="13">fun.ecoins.v1b</option>
<option name="14" value="14">place.sin.v2b</option>
<option name="15" value="15">cool.poczta.v1b</option>
<option name="16" value="16" id="app_id" selected="">systems.ecoins.launch.v1b</option>
<option name="17" value="17">fun.eastertor.v2</option>
<option name="18" value="18">space.ecoins.v4b</option>
<option name="19" value="19">services.devcode.v1b</option>
<option name="20" value="20">space.bonoloto.v1b</option>
<option name="21" value="21">software.devcode.vpnfree.uk.v1</option>
<option name="22" value="22">software.devcode.smsfree.v1b</option>
<option name="23" value="23">services.devcode.smsfree.v1b</option>
<option name="24" value="24">services.devcode.smsfree.v1</option>
<option name="25" value="25">software.devcode.smsfree.v1</option>
<option name="26" value="26">software.devcode.vpnfree.v1b</option>
<option name="27" value="27">software.devcode.vpnfree.v1</option>
<option name="28" value="28">software.devcode.locatizator.v1</option>
<option name="29" value="29">software.devcode.netinfo.v1b</option>
<option name="-1" value="-1">none</option>
</select>
<script type="text/javascript">
function onAppSelection(selectBox) {
// clear selection
for(var i=0;i<=selectBox.length;i++) {
var selectedNode = selectBox.options[i];
if(selectedNode!=null) {
selectedNode.removeAttribute("id");
selectedNode.removeAttribute("selected");
}
}
// assign id and selected
var selectedNode = selectBox.options[selectBox.selectedIndex];
if(selectedNode!=null) {
selectedNode.setAttribute("id","app_id");
selectedNode.setAttribute("selected","");
}
}
</script>
In my case:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeFunction(val) {
//Show option value
console.log(val.value);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<select id="selectBox" onchange="changeFunction(this)">
<option value="1">Option #1</option>
<option value="2">Option #2</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
focus clears value, so select any value is a change and fires myFunc(this) and blur defocus for reselect
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function myFunc(el) {
//Show option value
console.log(el.value);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<select id="selectBox" onchange="myFunc(this);this.blur();" onfocus="this.selectedIndex = -1;">
<option value="1">Option #1</option>
<option value="2">Option #2</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>