Try this:
$('#iNodeID').change( function() {
if ( this.selectedIndex > -1 )
$('#sLinkText').val( this.options[ this.selectedIndex
].text );
});
Karl Rudd
On 12/6/06, Bruce MacKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello again,
>
> I've taken one step closer to fixing this problem:
>
> $('#iNodeID').change(function(){$("#sLinkText").val($("#iNodeID").attr("value"))});
>
> returns the value of the selected option, but I still don't know how to get
> the text between the option tags; .attr("option") doesn't return the text.
>
> While I could just append the text to the value attribute and then strip it
> serverside before processing the value, I'm reluctant to do that because
> some of the option strings are quite long and there are many options - I
> don't want to add unnecessary weight to the page.
>
> What am I still missing here? What is my next option?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
>
>
> At 09:16 a.m. 6/12/2006, you wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'd appreciate some help with a form element task I wish to achieve.
>
> I have a form containing three elements (2 text and 1 select).
> [sNewNodeTitle]
> [iNodeID] <--- select
> [sLinkText]
>
> For reasons that aren't important here, the user will either enter
> something into sNewNodeTitle or select an existing item from the iNodeID
> dropdown list. What I want to do is have either the entered text or the
> text between the iNodeID select tags to be replicated into sLinkText.
>
> I've achieved the latter with
> $('#sNewNodeTitle').keyup(function(){if(this.value.length>0)
> $('#sLinkText').val(this.value);});
>
> but I don't know how to get the required info from the select element. I
> don't want the value of the selected select element (it will be an integer)
> - I need the text.
>
> Can someone please provide me with some direction here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
>
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