[Javascript] setting select drop selectedIndex

[Schalk]

Greetings,

The solutions from Joao was the one that did the trick, thanks!

Paul Novitski wrote:
>
>> At 10:21 AM 8/2/2006, Schalk wrote:
>>> Should the following be able to set the selectedIndex of a select 
>>> drop down?
>>>
>>> document.checkout.billingstate.options[document.checkout.billingstate.selectedIndex].value 
>>> = state;
>
> At 10:30 AM 8/2/2006, Paul Novitski wrote:
>
>> No, that statement sets the value of the option at the selected 
>> location.  I believe what you want is:
>>
>>         document.checkout.billingstate.selectedIndex = state;
>>
>> where 'state' is an integer 0-N.
>
>
> I prefer to code this as:
>
>         <select id="billingstate" name="billingstate">
>         ...
>
>                 // exit silently if it's not a DOM-enabled user agent
>                 if (!document.getElementById) return;
>
>         // find the SELECT list
>         var oList = document.getElementById("billingstate");
>
>                 // might as well abort if the markup's wrong
>                 if (!oList) return alert("Fatal HTML error: 
> billingstate not found");
>
>         oList.selectedIndex = state;
>
> This uses DOM methods and lets the program exit gracefully instead of 
> simply crashing if everything isn't as it should be.
>
> Paul
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