Select Element Question

**TheBionicOrange** · May 17th, 2001, 03:44 AM

I'm using a select element on my html page.

Lets say its called cboPriority.

How do I move the value of this element into a temporary field ? I want to store the text that is displayed on screen for the user, not the index number or anything like that.

I tried using the 'VALUE' attribute, but that always appears empty.

TIA.

**fredrik** · May 17th, 2001, 04:08 AM

Ok, so you want to move the text from a select-box to another field?

Code:

<html><body>
<form name="frm">
<select name="sel">
<option value="1">VB</option>
<option value="2">ASP</option>
</select>
<br>
<input type="button" onClick="document.frm.txtVal.value=document.frm.sel[document.frm.sel.selectedIndex].text">
<input type="text" name="txtVal">
</form></body></html>

When you click the button, the text from the select-box will be displayed in the text-box. This can easily be built within a js-function.

**TheBionicOrange** · May 17th, 2001, 04:29 AM

I'm using VB script, so is it possible you could tell me what the equivalent of that HTML code is ?

I'm only trying to store the value in a temporary variable. It will be used to update a database field later on.

**fredrik** · May 17th, 2001, 04:42 AM

Hello, the code translated to VBScript is almost the same:

Code:

<html>
<body>
<script language=VBSCRIPT>
sub getText(objItm)
	dim strVal
	strVal =  objItm(objItm.selectedIndex).text
	msgbox "The value is: " &strVal
end sub
</script>
<form name="frm">
<select name="sel">
<option value="1">VB</option>
<option value="2">ASP</option>
</select>
<br>
<input type="button" onClick="getText(document.frm.sel)" value="click me">
</form>
</body>
</html>

That should do it!

**TheBionicOrange** · May 17th, 2001, 05:14 AM

hanks for all your help Fredrick, but I don't think I am explaining myself very well.

I am using VB6, not HTML script, for this project. My HTML page is designed using the VB6 DHTML Page Designer (which is pretty rubbish I know !). I have physical VB code attached to my ActiveX objects.

Therefore I am trying something alonng the lines of :

*****************************************
Private Sub cboNeworMod_onchange()
NeworMod = cboNeworMod.Value

End Sub
*****************************************

The problem with this is that .VALUE returns an empty string, which is less than ideal.

The user has 2 possible choices:- "New" or "Modification".

If they click on screen and change it then I want to store "New" or "Modification", depending on which one they clicked.

Later on this text will update a field on a database record that will be created.

I hope that makes more sense, and thanks very much for the help so far. I appreciate I could make my life a lot easier if I brushed up on HTML, but at the moment I don't have the time !

**fredrik** · May 17th, 2001, 05:36 AM

ok, I give it try again...

Code:

Private Sub sel_onchange()
    strVal = sel.Item(sel.selectedIndex).Text
    MsgBox strVal
End Sub

I've tried this myself from VB and it works fine. (sel is the name of the select-box).

I hope this will do it!

**TheBionicOrange** · May 17th, 2001, 05:40 AM

Thanks Fredrick.

That is exactly what I needed and it now works perfectly.

Thanks a lot for all your help.

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