Populating a drop down based on a text field Javascript/Coldfusion 8 - javascript

I have a page that has around 30 different entry fields, one of the top fields is a textfield and after this is filled in, I want to populate a dropdown and a textfield. I currently have it calling a javascript function, however my main problem is that I need to query the database to find out what value to populate the fields with.
Here is the type of thing I was trying to do:
function populateState(){
<cfquery name="getState" datasource="#application.dsn#">
SELECT STATE_CODE, CODE_ID
FROM LERG_LATA_V1 LEFT OUTER JOIN Code ON STATE_CODE = CHAR1_TX
WHERE NPX = #NPANXX#
</cfquery>
}
And then after that I would need to read the result and select that element. Any suggestions on how to do this? Most of what I am finding on my google searches are saying you cannot mix cf and js since they execute at different times.

You need to either create a state JavaScript array with your query, and then reference that in your javascript, or use the built-in cfselect tag binding to make this happen. Here's a simple example of how I do this:
http://www.dansshorts.com/post/cfselect-binding-and-selectedvalues
Dan

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To detail a little more, I have a value and it needs to go into may different fields types. Simple text fields are fine as they're just insert in using .val() but for other default and custom fields that I have such as picklists and multi-select boxes I need to do some logic around the value for these fields so the appropriate values are set, but not all these type fields don't exist so don't want to do the necessary logic beforehand if those fields don't actually exist. So if I had 50 picklist fields I would obviously only want to do that logic once and set the values for all picklist fields to this value(s) that the logic had set. I just thought they're might be a simple method of JQuery that I'm missing here?!
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Cheers,
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evilcelery shared this fiddle: jsfiddle.net/evilcelery/c5QHr
This resolves the issue i had.

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