Please - this cannot be so difficult

[turfbult]

Hello,

I have 2 pages - "pageone" and "pagetwo". On "pageone" I have 2
dropdown menus - "products" and "selected". The "products" dropdown
is filled with 50 different products. The user can click on any one of
these products, which is then moved/copied to the "selected" dropdown.

Once the user has selected all the products he wants - ie. the "selected"
dropdown is filled, he then submits(submit button) the page which then
posts/opens "pagetwo". In "pagetwo" I want to run some asp script to
retrieve each and every item in the dropdown "selected".

I know HOW MANY selections there are, but I cannot seem to retrieve it
I tried this....

''prdctr is the count of how many items there are in the dropdown!!
for index = 1 to prdctr
response.write request.form("selected")(index)
next

....this does not work as it only sees that ONE item is selected - which
is actually true, only ONE item is selected at a time!! I tried changing
the "selected" dropdown property to "MULTIPLE" and size="10", which then works, but
as soon as the user selects more than 10 items and a scrollbar appears I
get some "IE Internal error".

Please anyone, how can I "read" thru the "selected" dropdown and
response.write each and every item in that dropdown - selected or not!!

Thanks,
T

[monte96]

I'm assuming this to need to be server side script on page2 and assuming that 'selected' is the NAME of your select tag:

for index = 1 to request.form("selected").Count
    response.write request.form("selected")(index) 
next

[turfbult]

Hi Monte96,

Thanks, but this will not solve my problem as only ONE option will actually be selected - for some reason I get errors when setting the "select box" to accept multiple selections, so COUNT will always be 1.

T

[monte96]

What kind of errors?

I know it works cuz I use it all the time.