Re: Dynamic Drop Down Box

on 3/6/02 10:31 AM, Leotta, Natalie (NCI/IMS) at LeottaN@ims.nci.nih.gov appended the following bits to my mbox: > If they want two pages they wouldn't need JS though - just submit and use > that in your second query to populate drop-down #2. I had assumed that they > wanted it on the same page - which is definitely cooler :-) Good point > though - I should have asked which way they wanted to do it. I suppose if > you really wanted to be able to say your site used JS you could still use it > to set a hidden value in the form and submit it to the next page that way. I figured I'd throw something in too. I personally don't like the client side scripting option because it adversely affects accessibility. If you choose the client side option, you should also have a non JavaScript version as well (the 2 pages mentioned before) for site visitors that have other types of interfaces that don't understand JavaScript or for visitors that have dynamic scripting turned off (not a bad idea these days with all the XSS cookie stealing stuff). That said, WebReference has a great tutorial and a bunch of code that you can use to make the nifty related drop-down menus. You can see the theory and tutorial here: <http://webreference.com/dev/menus/> And they even have a script that'll generate the code for you here: <http://webreference.com/js/tools/menus/> Hope that helps. Sincerely, Paul Burney http://paulburney.com/ <?php If ($your_php_version < 4.1.2) { upgrade_now(); // to avoid major security problems /* Please see <http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012002.html> */ ?>