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Hi Wayne,

How many possible stores are there. If there's not a lot, then it seems to make more sense to just print out an array of the information in a script on the page.

If you are going to use AJAX though, what is the server-side language you are using? ( php, asp, java, ..)

Here is an example of a the javascript that might be used for your situation:

var xmlHttp;

function createXMLHttpRequest() {
	if (window.ActiveXObject) {
		xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
	}
	else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
		xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
	}
}

function startRequest(method, URL) {
	createXMLHttpRequest();
	xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = handleStateChange;
	xmlHttp.open(method, URL, true);
	xmlHttp.send(null);
}

function handleStateChange() {
	if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
		if (xmlHttp.status == 200) {
			processResponse(xmlHttp.responseXML);
		}
	}
}

function processResponse(response) {
	// set your html form from the results here
}

you would need a server script to output xml, or, if JSON is installed, it could output a javascript array format.

in the element that the user selects the store, you will need an onchange event to call the startRequest function. the call would look something like this:

startRequest('GET', 'http://myserver.com/getstoreadress.php?storeid=152');

if the call was being made from a selectbox dropdown, you could assign the store id's to the value of each drop down and just dynamically call this in the select tag like so

<select name="stores" onchage="startRequest('GET', 'http://myserver.com/getstoreaddress.php?storeid=' + this.value);">

when this is called, it sends the request to the server, and returns xml. ( or text if you use json. ) you need to modify the processResponse function to parse the xml and set the values of the address fields.

i did not test this code for your situation, but it should be close to what you need. a google search for ajax resposneXML should turn up plenty of examples of how to parese the returned XML.

keep us updated on the progress.