Intelligent Drop Downs
Jul 14, 2005
what i'm looking to do is have a drop down menu, where when an option is selected it displays a description elsewhere on the screen and opens up another drop down menu along side the first one, then i'd like the second one to do the same as the first and finally i'd like the third one to just display a description.
but i'm not sure how to do it? javascript? if so what's it called so i can look into it/a tut on it.
so drop down 1 is either poetry or prose
down down 2 is for poetry
+ narrative
+ nature
+ romantic
but for prose it's
+ fiction
+ non-fiction
but that's not just it, if you select poetry in drop down one, i want it to display a description (that's in the description="" of the option) and i want that the same for each different menu, though to appear in different position for each menu Code:
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Mar 30, 2004
Ok, I just tried to make this post and got logged out when I hit preview, so this time around it's gonna be much shorter as my patience has run out.
...Over at gazingus.org there is a sweet little bit of code that uses the DOM to make dropdown menus.
I have altered the code (see below) to make the menus appear on the first mousover instead of the onClick event.
However, they never go away. I'm trying to figure out how make the last menu open disappear after a short delay. I've already tried this
actuator.onmouseout=function(){
if(currentMenu){
setTimeout('currentMenu.style.visibility = "hidden";',2000);
}
}
However, it doesn't work. The delayed code events pile up on each other if menus are continually moused over and out. (Say the user can't decide what menu they're looking for and runs the mouse left...then right...then left...)
The result is that after the 2000ms the menus close instantly....
/*
* menuDropdown.js - implements an dropdown menu based on a HTML list
* Author: Dave Lindquist (http://www.gazingus.org)
*/
var currentMenu = null;
if (!document.getElementById)
document.getElementById = function() { return null; }
function initializeMenu(menuId, actuatorId,position) {
var menu = document.getElementById(menuId);
var actuator = document.getElementById(actuatorId);
if (menu == null || actuator == null) return;
if (window.opera) return; // I'm too tired
actuator.onmouseover = function() {
if (currentMenu == null) {
this.showMenu(position);
}
else if(currentMenu) {
currentMenu.style.visibility = "hidden";
this.showMenu(position);
}
return false;
}
actuator.onblur = function() {
if(currentMenu){
setTimeout('currentMenu.style.visibility = "hidden";',2000);
return false;}}
actuator.showMenu = function(position) {
if (document.all){
menu.style.left = this.offsetLeft + 80 - position + "px";
}
else {
menu.style.left = this.offsetLeft - position + "px";
}
menu.style.top = this.offsetTop + this.offsetHeight + 2 + "px";
menu.style.visibility = "visible";
currentMenu = menu;
}
}
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Sep 6, 2005
i have a soccer-site, on which of course,
can be kept track of played matches.
Now the admin has to be able to set the number
of goals, and then select who scored what goal.
I want a system where one can put a number in
a textfield (NaN would return an error).
Say the admin enters Ɖ'. Then three dropdown
lists appear below that field, in them are the
players.
If he turns Ɖ' (goals) into ƈ', the lowest one
has to be deleted, but the upper two have to stay,
with an unchanged (already selected) value ...
Preferrably cross browser. I just can't seem to
figure out, i've tried loads of innerHTML and
document.write(), both didn't give me what i
wanted (yet).
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Aug 31, 2004
Does anyone know if such a thing exists in web programming as an intelligent dropdown boxes (you know the type where u can type and it automatically completes your text for you from data it has stored in the database?)
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Sep 26, 2006
when a user clicks a radio button, javascipt populates the next drop-down depending on which radio button they clicked. This then happens to a next drop-down list. Code:
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Jul 23, 2005
I am trying to create a webpage and it would be obvious to anyone who
reads my source code (it's a mess) that I created it using a template.
I know almost nothing about webpages, but am happy with all but a few
bugs in my page.
I have read many posts about opening drop-downs in new windows, and
have spent hours looking over my source code to see what I have done
wrong.
My links open in the same window like I want, but ALL of my drop-downs
open in a new window!
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Jul 23, 2005
I have been asked to produce a web catalogue of services and associated
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My initial thought was to use a set of cascading drop downs, select an
option from the first fills the available options for the second and so on.
Given the current buzz about Ajax this would seem an opportunity to try out
some of its features.
Could anyone point me at an example of what I am trying to do? For
information, the target web server environment is Apache with both mod perl
and mod php being available.
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Oct 19, 2007
If any of you have a Google home page ...
http://www.google.com/ig
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arrow.
Does anyone have any recommendations as the best way to do this? I am
grateful for any experiences you have. The key here is relatively
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Feb 8, 2010
i'm trying to make a form where if 2 particular options are chosen from 2 dropdown boxes, it puts a value in a text field. so far i've got
if (document.profile_quote.thickness.selectedIndex == "3" && document.profile_quote.machine.selectedIndex == "1") document.profile_quote.cutspeed.value = "34444"
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Jun 7, 2010
I can't seem to get a drop downs selected index.
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Mar 27, 2010
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Code in Head Tag
<script language ="javascript">
function abc()
{
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Sep 10, 2007
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Is there any good tutorial that can teach me how to do this? I managed
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dynamicly loads cityCounty but I ran into a problem when I already
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Aug 26, 2010
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Aug 25, 2010
I'm trying to build a string based on three drop downs. As each drop down choice is made, I want to append the string and redisplay it. When finished the string will be a complete (but not hyperlinked) URL.
My drop downs look like this:
HTML Code:
PHP Code:
Here's how it supposed to work...
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May 24, 2010
I'm new to this forum and also to Javascript. I've modified some script to add a browse button when "Add More" has been clicked.I was hoping someone may know how I can duplicate the entire row so that the two drop-down lists are also duplicated, in addition to the browse button
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Jul 30, 2010
I'm struggling to find a script that's probably quite simple but being a newbie please excuse my naivity.
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Drop Down 2:
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Feb 9, 2011
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Link: [url]
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Below is the code:
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Apr 28, 2010
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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Oct 25, 2011
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If some other problem occurred.
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