[thelist] how to stop a combo box resetting itself?
Edwin Martin
edwin at bitstorm.org
Tue Jun 8 02:13:48 CDT 2004
Millie Niss wrote:
> I have a page in which there are two select input menus, and the choice made
> in the first one sets up the choices for the second one, by some JavaScript
> I wrote. When you submit the form, via a submit button, a new page is
> loaded on a frame underneath the menus, with the menu choices determining
> which page is loaded. This works fine, but unfortunately when you submit
> the form, it also resets the menus to their initial positions, which is
> undesirable. Normally, the use would want to stay with the setting on the
> first menu, and change the setting on the second menu to see more stuff.
>
> The problem seems to be that the page is reloaded when the form is
> submitted. If that's the case, I don't know how (short of server-side
> scripting or a cookie) to restore the values in the menus. These seem like
> drastic efforts, so I hope someone can suggest something better.
The page with the select-boxes is probably reloaded.
You probably have something like:
<form onsubmit="frame1.location=bottompage...">
This should be:
<form onsubmit="frame1.location=bottompage...; return false">
Best way is to do this:
<form action="bottompage..." target="bottomframe">
You are very sparse about your actual HTML, so it's not easy
to give the answer right away.
Edwin Martin.
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