Partially refresh the page

[Doru Roman]

Hi,

What I want to achieve is:
when changing the value in a drop down box to display something as
a text inside an area without refreshing the whole page

 

[Ray at]

You'll most likely want to use client side code then.

<form name="formname">
<select onchange="this.document.formname.textboxname.value='You selected
'+this.value;">
<option value="1">Option 1</option>
<option value="2">Option 1</option>
<option value="3">Option 1</option>
</select>

<input type="text" name="textboxname">
</form>

Ray at work

 

[John Beschler]

If the text you want to display is already available
someplace inside the page, you could use javascript to
accomplish this. It's a bit tricky, but it can be done.

I've done this using buttons that appear with predefined
text based upon the users selection from a drop-down box.


Basically, you write code for the onclick event of the
drop down to control the text in your page.

BTW, it is not possible to "partially refresh the page."

What you would actually be doing with the javascript is
changing the content of the page client-side.

John

 

[Doru Roman]

I know to do it with the text box, but is it possible without any boxes,
just text?

 

[Ray at]

Probably, with some of that fancy innerHTML stuff that I don't know anything
about. Try posting to a client-side group, such as scripting.jscript or
an IE group.

Ray at work