[thelist] Javascript if...or statement
Joshua Olson
joshua at waetech.com
Fri Aug 30 12:49:01 CDT 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Caudill" <SCaudill at municode.com>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 1:23 PM
> At the risk of sounding more greenhorn than usual, what would I use in
place of the value property?
The cross platform way to get a value from a select box is as such:
form.elements.myselect.options[form.elements.myselect.options.selectedIndex]
.value
or likewise
temp = form.elements.myselect.options;
temp[temp.selectedIndex].value
You could write a function:
function selectValue(element)
{
return element.options[element.options.selectedIndex].value;
}
Then, simply use:
selectValue(form.elements.myselect)
Uggg.
In some cases, if you know the value you want to is option number 1, then
you can use simply
form.elements.myselect.options.selectedIndex == 0
If that is true, then you know that the first item in the dropdown is
selected.
-joshua
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