How get value of a drop down in Internet Explorer?

[antiinertia]

How does one find the value of a drop down in Internet Explorer?

The form below works in Firefox and Safari. But not in Internet
Explorer. Can someone tell me how to code this so IE understands it?

<script language="javascript">
function copyDescription() {

document.myForm.Description.value=document.myForm. MakeDescription.value
}
</script>

<form name="myForm" id="myForm">
<SELECT name="MakeDescription" onChange="copyDescription();">
<OPTION selected value="">Choose</OPTION>
<OPTION>A</OPTION>
<OPTION>B</OPTION>
<OPTION>C</OPTION>
</SELECT>
<br /><br />
<input name="Description" id="Description" type="text" />
</form>

Any help appreciated!

[Randy Webb]

an*********@gmail.com said the following on 4/19/2007 5:27 PM:

How does one find the value of a drop down in Internet Explorer?

Assign it a value attribute.

The form below works in Firefox and Safari. But not in Internet
Explorer. Can someone tell me how to code this so IE understands it?

<option value="A">A</option>

IE doesn't correlate the value of a select as being the text of a select
element.

--
Randy
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[RobG]

On Apr 20, 7:27 am, [e-mail] wrote:

How does one find the value of a drop down in Internet Explorer?

The form below works in Firefox and Safari. But not in Internet
Explorer. Can someone tell me how to code this so IE understands it?

<script language="javascript">

The language attribute is deprecated, type is required.

function copyDescription() {

document.myForm.Description.value=document.myForm. MakeDescription.value}

Since your options don't have value attributes but do have text
attributes, you can use:
document.myForm.Description.value=document.myForm. MakeDescription.text;
Why doesn't IE follow the W3C spec? Dunno.

>
</script>

<form name="myForm" id="myForm">
<SELECT name="MakeDescription" onChange="copyDescription();">
<OPTION selected value="">Choose</OPTION>
<OPTION>A</OPTION>
<OPTION>B</OPTION>
<OPTION>C</OPTION>
</SELECT>
<br /><br />
<input name="Description" id="Description" type="text" />
</form>

--
Rob