Text Box

**kiwis** · Jul 30th, 2004, 09:29 PM

Hi,

I have a text box and a drop down menu. Now the text box is blank so a user and write their own information in it. but the drop down box has a heap of answers already in it. when a user selects one of the options in the drop down box it will transfer the info to the text box... does anyone know how this would work??

**visualAd** · Jul 31st, 2004, 01:35 AM

The following HTML does this. It uses the onchange event of the option select box and a javascript function.

I posted it on my website if you want to see it working:

http://adam.codedv.com/textbox.html

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html 
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
		<title>Textbox Transfer</title>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			<!--
			function processchange ()
			{
				var theForm = document.getElementById('questions');

				theForm.answertext.value = theForm.answers.value;
			}
			//-->
		</script>
	</head>
	<body>
		<form action="submit.php" id="questions">
		<p>
			<input type="text" name="answertext" />
			<select name="answers" onchange="processchange();">
				<option>answer1</option>
				<option>answer2</option>
				<option>answer3</option>
			</select>
		</p>
		</form>		
	</body>
</html>

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