Dynamic Menu with text-box option

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October 12th, 2001, 11:52 AM

Hagan.B

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Dynamic Menu with text-box option

Hi,

Im very new to javascript, and need a little help with some code.

I have a script which i downloaded from another site, which is a pull-down-menu. Depending upon what you select, a text description is shown below.

This is great, and all works fine. However, what i need to be able to do is if a user selects, say, the last option, I need to make 2 text boxes appear for data input, instead of the text description. I only need the text boxes for 1 of the options.

Any help with this would be very much appreciated.

Regards, Ben.

Heres the code so far:-

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

<form name="a294" >
<select name="a969" size="1" style="background-color:#FFFFD7" onChange="displaydesc(document.a294.a969.selectedIndex)">
<option selected value="http://wsabstract.com">Website Abstraction </option>
<option value="http://freewarejava.com">Freewarejava.com</option>
<option value="http://wired.com">Wired News</option>
<option value="http://freewarejava.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi">WA Help Forum</option>
<option value="http://www.msnbc.com">MSNBC</option>
</select>
<input type="button" value="Go"
onClick="location=document.a294.a969.options[document.a294.a969.selectedIndex].value"><br>
<span id="descriptions" align="left" style="font:italic 13px Arial">
</span>
</form>

<script>

var textdisplay=new Array()
textdisplay[0]="Comprehensive JavaScript tutorials and over 400+ free scripts"
textdisplay[1]="Direct link to hundreds of free Java applets online!"
textdisplay[2]="Up to date news on the technology front"
textdisplay[3]="Interact with other webmasters on JavaScript, DHTML, and more."
textdisplay[4]="National and international news"

function displaydesc(which){
if (document.all)
descriptions.innerHTML=textdisplay[which]
else if (document.getElementById)
document.getElementById("descriptions").innerHTML=textdisplay[which]
}

displaydesc(document.a294.a969.selectedIndex)

document.a294.a969.options[0].selected=true

</script>

</body>
</html>

October 13th, 2001, 12:11 AM

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Uh... what does this have to do with Servlets & JSP?

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