HI,
I am running the following script which allows me to have a filter on a second dropdown box depending on what was chosen in the first one.
function getState(countryId) {
var strURL="findState.php?country="+countryId;
var req = getXMLHTTP();
if (req) {
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (req.readyState == 4) {
// only if "OK"
if (req.status == 200) {
document.getElementById('statediv').innerHTML=req.responseText;
} else {
alert("There was a problem while using XMLHTTP:\n" + req.statusText);
}
}
}
req.open("GET", strURL, true);
req.send(null);
}
}
<form method="post" action="" name="form1">
<table width="60%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="150">Country</td>
<td width="150"><select name="country" onChange="getState(this.value)">
<option value="">Select Country</option>
<option value="1">USA</option>
<option value="2">Canada</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr style="">
<td>State</td>
<td ><div id="statediv"><select name="state" >
<option>Select Country First</option>
</select></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
and it works.
If I however add another set of dropdown boxes with the same criteria, the second one does not work and I have to change the name of the function in the onChange statement and add that new function to the script at the top to get it to work.
function getState(countryId) {
var strURL="findState.php?country="+countryId;
var req = getXMLHTTP();
if (req) {
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (req.readyState == 4) {
// only if "OK"
if (req.status == 200) {
document.getElementById('statediv').innerHTML=req.responseText;
} else {
alert("There was a problem while using XMLHTTP:\n" + req.statusText);
}
}
}
req.open("GET", strURL, true);
req.send(null);
}
}
function getState1(countryId) {
var strURL="findState.php?country="+countryId;
var req = getXMLHTTP();
if (req) {
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (req.readyState == 4) {
// only if "OK"
if (req.status == 200) {
document.getElementById('statediv').innerHTML=req.responseText;
} else {
alert("There was a problem while using XMLHTTP:\n" + req.statusText);
}
}
}
req.open("GET", strURL, true);
req.send(null);
}
}
<form method="post" action="" name="form1">
<table width="60%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="150">Country</td>
<td width="150"><select name="country" onChange="getState(this.value)">
<option value="">Select Country</option>
<option value="1">USA</option>
<option value="2">Canada</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr style="">
<td>State</td>
<td ><div id="statediv"><select name="state" >
<option>Select Country First</option>
</select></div></td>
</tr>
<tr style="">
<td>City</td>
<td ><div id="citydiv"><select name="city">
<option>Select State First</option>
</select></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="60%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="150">Country</td>
<td width="150"><select name="country" onChange="getState1(this.value)">
<option value="">Select Country</option>
<option value="1">USA</option>
<option value="2">Canada</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr style="">
<td>State</td>
<td ><div id="statediv"><select name="state" >
<option>Select Country First</option>
</select></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Isn't there a way that I can reuse the function with the same name as many times as I want without having to use a new name each time??