I hate that about IE. :( Some of these might be helpful. http://plugins.jquery.com/project/selectboxes http://www.malsup.com/jquery/form/ http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jq-autocomplete
Glen On Jan 17, 2008 8:21 AM, Eric Lanehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm trying to dynamically configure the options in a <select> element > based upon selections in a series of radio buttons. My first > inclination was to apply a class to all of the <option>'s matching the > value of the checkbox <input>, and to then apply the > disabled="disabled" attribute too all of the matching <option> > elements. If only it were that easy.. IE doesn't support that > attribute, and all the workarounds are a bit silly (using CSS to color > an option, and doing various things to prevent the option from being > selected). I could of course load in options via ajax, or have a > series of <select> elements that I toggle on and off, but I'm trying > to allow this to gracefully degrade (planning on doing some serverside > validation to check if the combo selected is valid). > > So my next option, as I see it, is to replace the <option> elements > with the relevant classes with a bogus invalid element, like > <disabled>. But once another <input> is selected I need to reset the > menu and restore the <disabled> options before I can toggle the newly > irrelevant options. It's also important that I not move the options > around when I turn them back into <option> elements. replaceAll/With > does this of course, but it wipes out my attributes in the process. Is > there a way to do this without that happening, outside of storing the > attributes as variables before removing and replacing these elements, > and then setting the attributes back one by one? > > I'm more of a designer than a developer, so I may be missing something > here. I've thought about arrays, but I haven't really got into that > yet. If that's the road I need to be going down just validate that for > me and I'll do my best to figure it out =) I'm thinking the caveat > there would be I wouldn't be able to place my elements back in their > original order if I moved the elements into an array and them dumped > them back in the <select>. > > Thanks for any help! >
