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alpswd
alpswd

Reputation: 51

Javascript Dropdown Menu - Refresh when the selection is changed

I am trying to set this up so that when a user changes the 'hier_start', the page is refreshed and the dropdown is preselected with the selection that was just made.

<form name='categories' id="categories">
<div class="row">
    <select name="hier_start" onchange="javascript: NextCat('A', this.value)">
    <option value="0" parent="0">Select...</option>
    [% FOREACH hier_start IN categories.keys %]
    <option value="[% hier_start %]">[% hier_start %]</option>
    [% END %]
    </select>
    <select name="hier_A" style="display:none" onchange="javascript: NextCat('B', this.value)">
    <option value="0" parent="0">Select...</option>
    </select>
    <select name="hier_B" style="display:none" onchange="javascript: NextCat('C', this.value)">
    <option value="0" parent="0">Select...</option>
    </select>
    <select name="hier_C" style="display:none" onchange="javascript: NextCat('D', this.value)">
    <option value="0" parent="0">Select...</option>
    </select>
    <select name="hier_D" style="display:none">
    <option value="0" parent="0">Select...</option>
    </select>

</div>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1907

Answers (2)

Cosmin B
Cosmin B

Reputation: 13

You need to use a server side language (PHP, ASP, etc) or cookies to send the values. There might be a way of doing it by replacing the html without refreshing the page (which I don't recommend) but this disappears when the page is reloaded again since it loads the original .html file.

Upvotes: 0

Micah Henning
Micah Henning

Reputation: 2185

The onchange attribute should only contain the action to perform:

<select name="hier_start" onchange="javascript: NextCat('A', this.value)">

should be

<select name="hier_start" onchange="NextCat('A', this.value)">

I don't see any details as to your approach for refreshing the page, so I cannot provide any insight on that other than you probably don't need to refresh the page at all.

Upvotes: 2

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