Reputation: 345
I've been pulling my hair out with this one, although I'm certain the solution is embarrassingly simple! I have developed a pull-down menu that requires a selection before presenting more choices, based on the initial selection. It works fine.
However, I need to have jQuery submit the value of the option chosen without a submit button present. So, basically, when a user selects a fruit size, the user is taken to the relevant page in the option value. I cant figure it out! Heres my code:
jQuery:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('#fruit').change(function()
{
var val = $('#fruit').val();
$('.fruitSubSelect').hide();
if(val)
{
$('#fruit'+val).show();
$('#noFruit').hide();
}
});
});
</script>
CSS to hide size select:
<style type="text/css">
.fruitSubSelect {display: none;}
</style>
HTML:
<form action="nothing">
<select id="fruit">
<option value="">Choose Fruit</option>
<option>Apple</option>
<option>Orange</option>
</select>
<select id="fruitApple" class="fruitSubSelect">
<option value="">Choose Size</option>
<option value="http://www.mysite.com/big-apple.html">Big Apple</option>
<option value="http://www.mysite.com/small-apple.html">Small Apple</option>
</select>
<select id="fruitOrange" class="fruitSubSelect">
<option value="">Choose Size</option>
<option value="http://www.mysite.com/big-orange.html">Big Orange</option>
<option value="http://www.mysite.com/small-orange.html">Small Orange</option>
</select>
<select id="noFruit">
<option value="">Choose A Fruit First</option>
<option value="">Please Select Fruit First</option>
</select>
</form>
Would appreciate any help! Thanks.
Upvotes: 0
Views: 63
Reputation: 136239
the addition of this into your jquery alert's the selected option's URL:
$('.fruitSubSelect').change(function(){
alert($(':selected',$(this)).val());
});
live example: http://jsfiddle.net/274Gv/
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 15961
I think you're looking for something like this:
$(".fruitSubSelect").change(function(){
window.location.href = this.value;
});
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/jonathon/bWUnR/
This will get the selected value of the dropdown and set the window location to it (so the page will go to it).
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 1672
With dropdowns, do not use .val(). :selected is what you're looking for. http://api.jquery.com/selected-selector/
Upvotes: 0