Dynamic Select and onChange

[Michael McGrew]

I have a Dynamic drop-down box that is populated based on a ADO query.
This works fine. I want to capture the users selection and assign it to
a variable for use in another query. I am using the onChange event to
try and capture the users selection but it always passes the last entry
in the drop-down list not what the user selects. Can anyone help me
with this. I am very new to ASP\Jscript\Vbscript. A snippent of the
code is below.

<select name="cur_mgr"
onchange="setMgr(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);">
<option value=""></option>
<%=Manager%>
</select>

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Michael McGrew wrote:

I have a Dynamic drop-down box that is populated based on a ADO query.
This works fine. I want to capture the users selection and assign it
to a variable for use in another query. I am using the onChange event
to try and capture the users selection but it always passes the last
entry in the drop-down list not what the user selects. Can anyone
help me with this. I am very new to ASP\Jscript\Vbscript. A snippent
of the code is below.

<select name="cur_mgr"
onchange="setMgr(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);">
<option value=""></option>
<%=Manager%>
</select>

This is not really an ASP issue (you'd be having the same problem if
your file had a .htm extension instead of .asp, wouldn't you?): it's a
client-side scripting issue. You haven't shown us enough here to allow
us to reproduce your problem. When you post to the client-side scripting
group (microsoft.public.scripting.jscript) include the setMgr function
code. Also, run your page and View source so you can include the html
for the options in the select element.

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[Michael McGrew]

Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote:

Michael McGrew wrote:

I have a Dynamic drop-down box that is populated based on a ADO query.
This works fine. I want to capture the users selection and assign it
to a variable for use in another query. I am using the onChange event
to try and capture the users selection but it always passes the last
entry in the drop-down list not what the user selects. Can anyone
help me with this. I am very new to ASP\Jscript\Vbscript. A snippent
of the code is below.

<select name="cur_mgr"
onchange="setMgr(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);">
<option value=""></option>
<%=Manager%>
</select>

This is not really an ASP issue (you'd be having the same problem if
your file had a .htm extension instead of .asp, wouldn't you?): it's a
client-side scripting issue. You haven't shown us enough here to allow
us to reproduce your problem. When you post to the client-side scripting
group (microsoft.public.scripting.jscript) include the setMgr function
code. Also, run your page and View source so you can include the html
for the options in the select element.

--
Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.

The setMgr function is just simple javascript to set a variable.

function setMgr(curMgr) {
var sMgr = curMgr;
}

I get the variable but it is always the last item in the drop-down
select, it doesn't reflect the selection.

[Anthony Jones]

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>
Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote:

Michael McGrew wrote:

I have a Dynamic drop-down box that is populated based on a ADO query.
This works fine. I want to capture the users selection and assign it
to a variable for use in another query. I am using the onChange event
to try and capture the users selection but it always passes the last
entry in the drop-down list not what the user selects. Can anyone
help me with this. I am very new to ASP\Jscript\Vbscript. A snippent
of the code is below.
>
<select name="cur_mgr"
onchange="setMgr(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);">
<option value=""></option>
<%=Manager%>
</select>

This is not really an ASP issue (you'd be having the same problem if
your file had a .htm extension instead of .asp, wouldn't you?): it's a
client-side scripting issue. You haven't shown us enough here to allow
us to reproduce your problem. When you post to the client-side scripting
group (microsoft.public.scripting.jscript) include the setMgr function
code. Also, run your page and View source so you can include the html
for the options in the select element.

--
Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.

The setMgr function is just simple javascript to set a variable.

function setMgr(curMgr) {
var sMgr = curMgr;
}

I get the variable but it is always the last item in the drop-down
select, it doesn't reflect the selection.

All the option values are "" so I'm surprised you are getting any value at
all.