Dropdown list in HTML

[JoeyJoeJo]

I can make the list okay, but I need to know how to make the items link to other sites when they are clicked. What I have now is something like

<select name="example">
<option>option1
<option>option2
<option>etc.
</select>

I want to make the options link to other pages on the site. How do I do that?

Thanks :rock:

[Ilya020]

Dude...

http://justlinux.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=90246

Ilya

Originally posted by ilya020
Dude...

http://justlinux.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=90246

Ilya

Dude.....

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showt...ight=PHP+array

Follow your own examples.
What you need is a JS event that runs in real time (check out my timers NUM) to check if a value has been chosen and if so make the window.location different as appropriate.

[Ilya020]

Originally posted by Vlad902


Dude.....

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showt...ight=PHP+array

Follow your own examples.
What you need is a JS event that runs in real time (check out my timers NUM) to check if a value has been chosen and if so make the window.location different as appropriate.

huh?

Ilya

[joe_bruin]

Originally posted by Vlad902
What you need is a JS event that runs in real time (check out my timers NUM) to check if a value has been chosen and if so make the window.location different as appropriate.

using a timer to keep checking if something changed is known as 'polling'. polling is often bad. in this case it keeps the javascript interpreter running, for no real reason, after the page has been rendered (it could be 3 days until the user actually selects something). instead, javascript provides asynchronous events (in this case, OnChange) so that your browser doesn't have to consume processor time while waiting for something to happen.

here are a few great examples: http://www.tneoh.zoneit.com/javascript/listboxlink.html

yes, i am aware that the cpu time consumed in this instance is trivial, but it's bad practice anyway.

[Admin]

joe is right.

Yeah, I *just* remembered that you can specify that type of thing in the HTML tag so that it launches an event when clicked but I was busy and had no time to edit my post :/

[sde]

here's some code from a online learning system i built which does what i think you want to do.

PHP Code:

<form name="jump">
&nbsp; <select name="menu" onChange="location=document.jump.menu.options[document.jump.menu.selectedIndex].value;" value="GO">
<option value="courses.php?" selected>Make a Selection</option>
<option value="courses.php?search_by=group_id&search_for=1">Hard Disk Recording</option>
<option value="courses.php?search_by=group_id&search_for=5">Keyboards</option>
<option value="courses.php?search_by=group_id&search_for=6">Samplers</option>
<option value="courses.php?search_by=group_id&search_for=2">Digital Mixing</option>
<option value="courses.php?search_by=group_id&search_for=3">Guitars</option>
<option value="courses.php?search_by=group_id&search_for=4">Drums and Percussion</option>
</select>&nbsp; 
</form> 


[Kernel_Killer]

Or you could always jump into DHTML.