cesarcesar Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 I have a textfield that uses a dynamic dropdown select script to let me choose a country by a few letters. Example, keying "B" shows "Brazil, Bulgaria, Belarus... Once i choose a county another function fires to send the selected data via http_request to another page. Here's it in use. <input type="text" name="country" onkeyup="ajax_showOptions(this,'get_country',event)" onblur="makeRequest('insert.php?field_name=country&field_value=',this.value)"> The problem is that the *this.value* in makeRequest() only sends the "B" or whatever chars where entered in the field. Now I understand that the dropdown script is filling the field in a different way than I would have keyed it but how im not sure. Looking at FireBug i think i see that my selection "Brazil" shows under *HTMLInputElement*. I guess my question is how do i get that value to show instead of *this.value* in makeRequest(). FYI, each script works fine when not working together on the same field. Thanks much for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesarcesar Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 thanks to BrianOConnell - Solution - replace *this.value* with *document.getElementById('country_hidden').value*. The country_hidden element was not in my initial post because i didn't think it was relevant.. bad me. It is shown in the original example linked in my post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesarcesar Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 darn.. found a glitch. the *document.getElementById('country_hidden').value* will not set on the first call of makeRequest(). It will though set if i re-select the drop down value again. Any ideas on hoe to get it to set the first time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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