[thelist] Javascript to alter a select list

[Jeff Howden]

Rod,

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> From: raanders at mailporter.net
> 
> [...] There was a question last week or the one before
> and I never replied to answer I got --- then lost the
> message.  The short answer I got was to look at AJAX.
> I still haven't been able to do more than peek at it
> but it did appear to have the potential to solve my
> problem.
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Be careful of people throwing around buzzwords as solutions to nearly every
problem.  From a cursory glance at your question in this post, it indeed
looks like AJAX is NOT *the* solution to your problem.

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> Next question.  Has anyone done a dynamic select list
> -- with option groups?  I can do some serious sledge
> hammering to get the select list to change but it is
> not generic and requires coding in the values and
> slamming and recreating the object if it needs to go
> back.
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I've done in OPTGROUP sorting and such, but nothing with actually populating
a select list with optgroups.

I'll address some of your other concerns in the other post you made after
this one where you posed more specific questions.

Thanks,

 [>] Jeff Howden
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