DEVELOP > Dreamweaver > Custom Forms Question (Drop down menus that know what is selected)
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"VastFear" |
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07 Aug 2003 01:15:13 AM |
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Custom Forms Question (Drop down menus that know what is selected) |
Greetings-
Hard one to explain here:
I am doing a custom form for a client but not sure how to tell the code to
do it!
- They want a drop down menu that has a series of selections.
- They have another drop down menu that needs to show series of selections
'based on' what is selected in the first menu.
For example:
- Say I have a drop down menu that has: Atari/Playstation in menu
- Second menu has list of games: River Raid/Pitfall/Resident Evil
If I choose Atari in the first menu I want the second menu to only show
River Raid/Pitfall (Resident Evil is not an Atari game). Or if I chose
Playstation the second menu would only contain Resident Evil) etc.
(Theirs is based on parts for a race car only certain parts can go with
other parts)
I assume there's a java script that tells it to compare or ASP or something.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Erik
(This is the site: www.howeracing.com)
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| User: "Hywel Jenkins" |
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| Title: Re: Custom Forms Question (Drop down menus that know what is selected) |
07 Aug 2003 06:06:44 AM |
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"VastFear" <VastFear@csinet.net> wrote in message news:<M7mYa.57148$Vt6.20574@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net>...
Greetings-
Hard one to explain here:
I am doing a custom form for a client but not sure how to tell the code to
do it!
- They want a drop down menu that has a series of selections.
- They have another drop down menu that needs to show series of selections
'based on' what is selected in the first menu.
For example:
- Say I have a drop down menu that has: Atari/Playstation in menu
- Second menu has list of games: River Raid/Pitfall/Resident Evil
If I choose Atari in the first menu I want the second menu to only show
River Raid/Pitfall (Resident Evil is not an Atari game). Or if I chose
Playstation the second menu would only contain Resident Evil) etc.
(Theirs is based on parts for a race car only certain parts can go with
other parts)
I assume there's a java script that tells it to compare or ASP or something.
Any help would be much appreciated!
http://developer.irt.org/script/form.htm#4
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Hywel
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| User: "Richard anom@anom" |
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| Title: Re: Custom Forms Question (Drop down menus that know what is selected) |
07 Aug 2003 09:36:11 AM |
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VastFear wrote:>>
Greetings-
Hard one to explain here:
I am doing a custom form for a client but not sure how to tell the code
to do it!
- They want a drop down menu that has a series of selections.
- They have another drop down menu that needs to show series of
selections 'based on' what is selected in the first menu.
For example:
- Say I have a drop down menu that has: Atari/Playstation in menu
- Second menu has list of games: River Raid/Pitfall/Resident Evil
If I choose Atari in the first menu I want the second menu to only show
River Raid/Pitfall (Resident Evil is not an Atari game). Or if I chose
Playstation the second menu would only contain Resident Evil) etc.
(Theirs is based on parts for a race car only certain parts can go with
other parts)
I assume there's a java script that tells it to compare or ASP or
something.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Erik
(This is the site: www.howeracing.com)
What you need is a multilevel menu array.
menuitem[0] as you know is single level.
menuitem[0,0] is a two level array.
menuitem[0,0,0] is three.
The trick is, keeping all the items lined up so that menu 1 directs the
proper response to menu 2 and so on.
I've only seen a few sites use this feature.
Another problem is, will it work in all browsers? Maybe not.
You probably should look for a cgi script that does it.
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