how to create drop down selection box with manual entry ?

by **nanao550** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 2:47 pm

Hello,
I have a drop down selection box with the options populated by a mysql query. Is it possible to allow a manual entry of an string for an option that is not currently in the drop down box?

If so, how can this be done?

Thanks.

by **serg_dz** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 11:31 pm

I don't remember the standard capabilities of HTML. I can advice you to use input type=text, button, select paced on another layer(div) and to show/hide that layer when ever you need.

by **Oleg Butuzov** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 2:48 am

you can do in the diferent way.

select drop down menu &java script

you are select new menu and there are creates input box =)

by **nanao550** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 8:34 am

Would it be possible for you to provide an example using javascript as you mention. I would like to see exactly what it would works like and how the code and structure would be like, and if it would be possible to apply this to php. I would like to avoid using javascript, because it can be disable by the browser.

Thanks

by **uncertain_manos** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 10:22 pm

nanao550 wrote:Would it be possible for you to provide an example using javascript as you mention. I would like to see exactly what it would works like and how the code and structure would be like, and if it would be possible to apply this to php. I would like to avoid using javascript, because it can be disable by the browser.

Thanks

Hi there,
here is a piece of code for the php part. I assume here that we have 3 option values and I have put a textbox to get the value for the input. The code in PHP goes like:

Code: Select all: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <form name="form1" method="post" action="put.php"> <input name="c1" type="text" id="c1"> <p><select name="select"> <option>1</option> <option>2</option> <option>3</option> <?php echo("<option>".$c1."</option>") ?> </select> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> </p></form> </body> </html>

Every time the user inputs a value in the textbox and then presses the button he gets a reload and update event.
Hope it helps,
Manos

how to create drop down selection box with manual entry ?

how to create drop down selection box with manual entry ?

Can you provide sample, please?

Re: Can you provide sample, please?

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