drop down menu problems with netscape

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December 29th, 2000, 03:03 PM

edwards151

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I'm having problems getting data out of a drop down menu <select> using Navigator 4.7
I keep getting 'null' as the value, reguardless of which item in the list I choose. This doesn't happen in IE. Here is some sample code. Try it out in IE and Navigator to see what I mean.

<html>
<form name="form1" >
<p>
<select name="days" onChange="display()">
<option value="monday" selected>monday</option>
<option value="tuesday">tuesday</option>
<option value="wednesday">wednesday</option>
<option value="thursday">thursday</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<input type="text" name="answer">
</p>
</form>
</body>
<script language="Javascript">
function display(){
document.form1.answer.value=document.form1.days.value;
}
</script>

</html>

Any thought would be greatly appreciated.

Jonathan

December 29th, 2000, 05:50 PM

oiadd

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document conventions for ie and netscape are different...look at this code to view layers

function show(id)
{
if (document.layers)
document.layers[id].visibility = "show"
else if (document.all)
document.all[id].style.visibility = "visible"
}

function hide(id)
{
if (document.layers)
document.layers[id].visibility = "hide"
else if (document.all)
document.all[id].style.visibility = "hidden"
}

December 29th, 2000, 06:41 PM

jkd

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IE allows syntax incorrect shortcuts which often confuse new scripters. Try:

function display(){
document.form1.answer.value=document.form1.days.options[document.form1.days.selectedIndex].value;
}

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