Option Id tag

[realgoldn]

Question:

I set the option id to a value but when I reference it it is null. What am I doing wrong?
<SELECT size=1 name=cboDiv style="WIDTH: 105px" >
Response.Write "<option id=" & Type1 & " value="& Type2 &">"& Type1 &"</option>"
</select>


msgbox document.addproj.cbodiv.id

[alexb]

You don't reference options as objects. You need to assign an id to the SELECT tag, and reference it, manipulating it's value as necessary.

[realgoldn]

but isn't the id a property of the option tag?? if I set the id of the select tag then I can't capture which option was selected.

[mendhak]

No, it should be like this:

<select id="propertyname">
<option value="one">1</option>
<option value="two">2</option>
...

Now, you get it by requesting the "propertyname" variable, which would have a value of "one", "two" or whatever...

[realgoldn]

is the proprty name unique to each option?

[mendhak]

Let me give you a better example:

<select id="month">
<option value="january">1</option>
<option value="february">2</option>
<option value="march">3</option>
<option value="april">4</option>



Now, retrieving the value for "month" in the next page would give you january, february, march, or april... etc...

So you define the "variable name" in the select tag, and the possible values in the option tags.

Comprende senor?

[realgoldn]

Ok, Depending on the situation I want to reference the January or the 1. So I was going to do the following code but that is wrong. So How do I reference the 1???

<option id="1" value="january">1</option>

[alexb]

You can't. You can only reference the value property itself (in this case, "january"). There's no reason why you couldn't write an array/collection to match month names with the corresponding integer, or any value for that matter.

[realgoldn]

Ok so my array is like this.
array(0,1) ="January"
array(1,1)="01"

So if they select "01" from the combo box how do I reference January?

[mendhak]

Realgoldn,

You know you could just switch the things around:

<select id="month">
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="2">February</option>
...



Anyways, if we go by your question:

Ok so my array is like this.
array(0,1) ="January"
array(1,1)="01"

So if they select "01" from the combo box how do I reference January?

If they select 1 from the original list I showed you, then you'd get January automatically when you Request it on the next page. What you can do is to compare the value being retrieved

varname = Request("monthname")
 
 
Select Case varname
Case "January"
varnumber = 1
 
Case "February"
varnumber = 2
 
'and so on

Whichever way you do it, you need to compare and assign.

[realgoldn]

But I don't want to hard code it. I want to bring it in from the recordset.

[mendhak]

Then use <% =objrs.fields("fieldname").value %> when writing out the combo box.

[realgoldn]

I don't want to hardcode the varname=1 I want to get those values from my table so incase the table changes I won't have to alter the code on the page.

[mendhak]

I just showed you how. You can work with your database fields instead of hardcoding it.

[realgoldn]

Ok, Thanks-